Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 20:58:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Aled Treharne <taff@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Keith Jones <keith@blueberry.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mountmsdosfs(): Warning: ...... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971120204850.25068A-100000@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971120111154.4893A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Doug White wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Keith Jones wrote:
> > When I mount MSDOS partitions on to my FreeBSD system (2.2.5R) the following
> > warning appears:
> >
> > mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple of the cluster-
> > size in length
<snip>
> The problem is really that you've used FIPS to shrink a drive, and you
> shrank the drive below the threshold for changing the standard
> clustersize. The msdosfs code isn't intelligent enough to grok the
> proper clustersize, so it spits that out.
Really? How interesting. Because I have the same error and I never used
FIPS. I have 2 Drives, 2.1G (1.5G Fat16 Primary, 600M Fat16 Extended) and
a 1.2G (FreeBSD). I run Dos v 7 (Win95 that is) and when I mount the 1.5G
partition from FBSD I get the same error. Fips has never been close to my
system.
> You should _*IMMEDIATELY*_ dismount the disk and not mount it until you
> reformat the DOS disk. Damage to the MSDOS and possibly the FreeBSD
> filesystems will result if you use the FS when you receive the warning.
OK, I'm not mounting it, but I won't reformat it since it won't make any
difference to the disk.
> If you need access to that disk from FreeBSD, install and use the mtools
> distribution instead. Mtools in in ports.
Yeeees, but a rather annoying way of doing things. I like to use Emacs to
write the code in when I'm programming, but I have to change back to DOS
to compile and run (Pascal). I like doing work in FBSD, using Win95 as
little as possible. Is there a fix for this error in the near future?
Yours hopefully,
- -Taff.
Aled Treharne felix@royal.net
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