From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jun 28 10:37:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA16094 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 10:37:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chipweb.ml.org (qmailr@c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA16085 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 10:37:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 2780 invoked by uid 666); 28 Jun 1998 17:37:46 -0000 Received: from speedy.chipweb.ml.org (172.16.1.1) by inet.chipweb.ml.org with SMTP; 28 Jun 1998 17:37:46 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980628103743.031f1c54@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com> X-Sender: ludwigp@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 10:37:43 -0700 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: It seems FreeBSD is crashable... ;-) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:22 AM 6/28/98 -0700, Tim Gerchmez wrote: >some reason, I can't mount the D: drive on the extended partition on the >first drive (wd0s3) - perhaps someone who knows more than I do can explain >why. Drives in extended partitions start numbering with slice 5, so it's wd0s5 for you. >I have it >automatically set up to mount now in .login so I can access it anytime I >please. Or you could use /etc/fstab, which is where the rest of the filesystem are located. >I'm aware of the risks of writing to the DOS filesystem from >FreeBSD, BTW... and plan to use it mostly for copying FROM the DOS drive TO >a directory on my FreeBSD drive. You could also use mtools (package or port), which preserves long filenames and doesn't require a partition to be constantly mounted. >Now, for the crashable part - I have an OS/2 boot manager partition on >/dev/wd0s1. Just for kicks, I tried: > >mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /tmp > >Guess what... FreeBSD instantly locked up. No keyboard input, no daemons >running, nothing... followed by an instant, unclean reboot a few seconds >later (all slices dirty on reboot). So it turns out it is possible to >completely crash FreeBSD :-) (someone's gonna tell me I should have known >that already). That's what you get for mounting a non-dos partition with mount_msdos... --Ludwig Pummer ludwigp@bigfoot.com ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message