From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 19 02:47:26 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA16777 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 02:47:26 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA16772 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 02:47:23 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id CAA19494 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 02:47:11 -0700 Message-ID: <30861E9E.6D66ED5C@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 02:47:10 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b1 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Fwd: 100595-SNAP problems: msdosfs, floppy install] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="---------------------------1736037781884534521386438015" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -----------------------------1736037781884534521386438015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bleah... Anyone have any ideas? Nothing has changed with msdosfs between 100595-SNAP and what will be 2.1.. :( -- Jordan -----------------------------1736037781884534521386438015 Content-Type: message/rfc822; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Path: reason.cdrom.com!nntp-ucb.barrnet.net!agate!soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU!mconst From: mconst@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Constant) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: 100595-SNAP problems: msdosfs, floppy install Date: 19 Oct 1995 07:38:01 GMT Organization: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Vegetables, UC Berkeley Lines: 31 Message-ID: <464v8p$t2d@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.csua.berkeley.edu I'm installing 2.1.0-100595-SNAP, and it's getting errors reading my msdos filesystem. mount_msdosfs() gives a warning that my root directory size is not a multiple of the cluster size; I assume this is because I repartitioned my drive with FIPS and mount_msdosfs() expects a different cluster size based on the partition size. However -- correct me if I'm wrong -- this shouldn't cause errors reading the disk, should it? When I use the emergency holographic shell and run mount_msdos manually, I can access a lot of the files on the disk, but sometimes I will get garbage in directory listings. When I try to install from the msdos partition, gunzip starts complaining about bad input data, and finally sysinstall gives up and returns error. According to Norton Disk Doctor and Scandisk, there are no actual errors on the dos partition. Besides, a directory that looks fine when I look at it once (from the holographic shell) will sometimes look garbled the next, and it won't go back to looking fine until I reboot. The only things I can think of that are even slightly abnormal are the following: first, my dos partition starts at sector 63. Would msdosfs be happier if it was better aligned? Second, when I install the root floppy (either from the image on disk or from the actual floppy) I get a message that trailing garbage was ignored (the message appears right after it installs /stand/ls). All the tools in /stand seem to work, though. Also, I have heard people say that msdosfs is broken; is my problem a symptom of that? If so, is there a workaround? Anyway, I tried installing from floppies as well, and here I got an error that just seems silly: it reads the first disk (bin.aa - bin.af) fine, then it tries to read bin.ag, fails, and aborts the installation. That *shouldn't* happen, should it? :-) -- Michael Constant (mconst@soda.csua.berkeley.edu) -----------------------------1736037781884534521386438015--