Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 15:19:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Peter van Heusden <pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Safety of MS-DOS F/S on 2.2-BETA Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970803151827.5106B-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970803104134.236B-100000@leftside.wcape.school.za>
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On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Peter van Heusden wrote: > Does anyone know if the MS-DOS F/S is safe for use on FreeBSD 2.2-BETA, > with the MS-DOS partition being a Windows95 VFAT-16 one? I recall in the > past that there were seriously problems with this filesystem, including > the possibility of corrupting non-MS-DOS partitions. There is a problem with the clusterlength guessing code in the msdosfs code if you used FIPS on the filesystem. If you didn't, you should be OK. Just umount it if you get the warning: root is not a multiple of clustersize in length message. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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