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To: "Victor A. Sudakov" <vas@vas.tomsk.su>
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Subject: Re: root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length 
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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 04:45:12 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> Hello all.
> 
> I got the sinister message:
> 
> mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize
> in length
> 
> when I tried to
> 
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0.720 /mnt/diska
> 
> Weird, isn't it? Should I be afraid of it? 

Be afraid.  Be *very* *very* afraid.  When this error comes from
mounting a DOS hard drive partitiion, it's a prelude to FreeBSD
sh**ing all over your disks - and not just the DOS ones !

> -- 
> Victor Sudakov
> http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....