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From: Peter van Heusden <pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za>
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Subject: Safety of MS-DOS F/S on 2.2-BETA
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Hi

Does anyone know if the MS-DOS F/S is safe for use on FreeBSD 2.2-BETA,
with the MS-DOS partition being a Windows95 VFAT-16 one? I recall in the
past that there were seriously problems with this filesystem, including
the possibility of corrupting non-MS-DOS partitions.

Thanks,
Peter
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