Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:59:50 +0200 From: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@masternet.it> To: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mount Msdos FS resolved Message-ID: <3172AAB6.41C67EA6@masternet.it> References: <199604151229.OAA00224@eac.iafrica.com>
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Robert Nordier wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > > > > Some time ago I wrote a message about problems on mounting dos > > partitions . A message concerning something about the clustersize > > and the root partion appeared soon after the mount and the partition > > after a few access became non dos . > > > > Now I have resolved the problem changing the clustersize of the dos > > partitions from 32kb to 8kb. Everything works like a charm now... > > > > It's possible or I am saying something new ? :-) > > What were the steps you took to do that? (What did you do it with? > What did you do before and after? Do you access the partition from > DOS as well as BSD? If so, what version of which DOS?) Details, > please. > I had to repartition the HD into smaller partitions. This because the DOS (and WIN*) use a FAT at 16bit, allowing to use a max of 65.536 (2^16) clusters for every partitions. So a drive larger than 1024 Mb with only one partition will have clusters of 32kb. I did three partitions in my 2.0 Gb HD, two of 512mb each (with clusters of 8kb) , one of 1024mb (with clusters of 16kb) Now I can see all partitions without any problems ( and I saved a lot of space , in a 32kb cluster partition you usually waste about 30% of the space, usually :-) The AFTER is simple I changed sd0 in sdsx (with x=1,2,3) in my /etc/fstab /dev/sd0s1 /mnt/win95 msdos ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/sd0s2 /mnt/games msdos ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/sd0s3 /mnt/data msdos ro,noauto 0 0 I my humble opinion when the HD had only one partitions with 32kb cluster the entire partition was not a multiple in length of 32kb , but I really don't know ... :-) But why it crashed is a mistery ... What's about from FreeBsd team ? +-------------------------------------+--------------------+ | Internet: gmarco@masternet.it | ,,, | | Internet: gmarco@nettuno.it | (o o) | | BIX : ggiovannelli@bix.com | ---oo0-(_)-0oo--- | | Fidonet : 2:332/113.0@fidonet | __ | | Amiganet: 39:102/507@amiganet | __/// Gianmarco | | http://www.masternet.it/dsc/gmarco | \XX/ | +-------------------------------------+--------------------+
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