From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 19 02:20:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA27876 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 02:20:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zipper.zip.com.au (sue@zipper.zip.com.au [203.12.97.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA27871 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 02:20:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (sue@localhost) by zipper.zip.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA03350; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:17:30 +1000 X-Authentication-Warning: zipper.zip.com.au: sue owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:17:29 +1000 (EST) From: Sue Blake X-Sender: sue@zipper.zip.com.au To: Greg Lehey cc: jfielden@geocities.com, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Warning message, what does it mean? In-Reply-To: <19970919173130.36808@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple of the > >>> clustersize in length. > This is exactly the situation I was referring to. If I were you, I'd > worry. FIPS doesn't do a perfect job, and it leaves pointers outside > the slice. If you're unlucky, msdosfs will use one of these pointers > and place random garbage in other slices. I've watched this thread occur twice before, and used the web site to search the archives, hoping to find answers. There's always some who say don't worry, some who say expect doom and destruction. Is the real situation that it doesn't hurt at all if you mount read-only but might crash everything otherwise? Or what? I partitioned my first SCSI, a 2 gig disk, with Partition Magic. small primary DOS extended partition with two small logical drives two teensy empty NTFS to assist drive letter assignment One large NTFS with yucky stuff on it a little over 1 gig FreeBSD I get this error when attempting to mount any of the dos partitions. So, if I simply use Partition Magic again and have it resize the partitions to kosher sizes, and/or change the cluster size, will that stop FreeBSD from complaining or not? If so, what figures are appropriate for drives about 125mb and 250mb? Regards, -*Sue*-