Date: 22 Mar 1997 09:52:30 -0500 From: Jay Sachs <sachs@interactive.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Coping Files From MS-DOS to a BSD Partitian? Message-ID: <87rah8asi9.fsf@luddite.org> In-Reply-To: "K. Marsh"'s message of Fri, 21 Mar 1997 14:42:21 -0800 (PST) References: <Pine.A32.3.95.970321143744.115707A-100000@goodall.u.washington.edu>
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"K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu> writes: > On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Robert Nordier wrote: > > > If your DOS filesystem has a cluster size exceeding 16K, don't use any > > FreeBSD release earlier than 2.2. It's that simple. :-) > > > > If you follow the rule above, the msdosfs is quite usable. It has > > various bugs, but it works reasonably well for simple operations. Just a warning. "Simple operations" does not include renaming a directory. I have a small (320MB) FAT-formatted disk. If I have a directory /dos/D/freebsd/xf32 (== D:\FREEBSD\XF32), and I do cd /dos/D/freebsd mv xf32 xf8632 it ends up cross-linking the directory and not actually renaming it. I end up with a circular directory reference. In the directory D:\FREEBSD\XF32 is a subdirectory XF32 which is actually the parent directory. Nothing tragic - CHKDSK or SCANDISK can fix it, but it doesn't really work. So I stopped trying to rename MSDOS directories while runing freebsd. -jay
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