From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 20 13:05:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA07199 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 13:05:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from blue.bad.bris.ac.uk (blue.bad.bris.ac.uk [137.222.132.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA06773 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 12:59:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taff@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk) Received: (qmail 25114 invoked by uid 57242); 20 Nov 1997 20:58:38 -0000 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 20:58:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Aled Treharne Reply-To: felix@royal.net To: Doug White cc: Keith Jones , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mountmsdosfs(): Warning: ...... In-Reply-To: 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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 > 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 "Big Bird meets Salvador Dali has been brought to you by the numbers L and ), and by the letter 3." For PGP Public key finger taff@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk #include(std.disclaim) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNHSkfsaJukNO1flNAQF9KgP/VRPJaPLNVx0np9zhNUqeVNS/xGKwIoBG 31/FtmP3t7FMHUH5mTaZ4oQTFJRcYf+oWUf5iLLPDAspHSAxyfP5V3gbSNTKXQfU xAPClnIYrSApTu45FUqZ+1FsOvoIlWWKykwG8ACEcF9C39Hr6V6Mjd9qZ4po3VMn 2yFP9IDqyqE= =20o4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----