Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 10:05:10 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: keith@kellysoftware.com (Keith A. Fredericks) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting msdos filesystem Message-ID: <199701010805.KAA02683@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <32C9BED2.5FB9@kellysoftware.com> from "Keith A. Fredericks" at "Dec 31, 96 08:33:06 pm"
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Keith A. Fredericks wrote: > I wrote a few weeks ago about a horrible problem that I was having where > my filesystems were vaporizing. Fix possibilities from my problem report > were bleak, i.e. get a new disk, controller, or cable. Anyway, I went > through all of the possibly funny stuff I might be doing and remembered > a mild warning on the mount_msdos man page about unpredictable stuff for > DOS greater than 3.3. > > I took the entry that mounted the msdos filesystem out of my fstab and what > do you know? I have had no problems whatsoever since then. I have been a > little shy to retest the hypothesis that mounting msdos is hosing my system. > But, if this is the case, I am thinking about the possibility of a more > stern warning to the mount_msdos man page reader. The problem has been fixed in 2.2-BETA and -current. > Does anyone use DOS 3.3 now? Do people mount >3.3 filesystems successfully? "DOS 3.3" really means filesystems compatible with DOS 3.3 rather than created by DOS 3.3. These are partitions types 1 (12-bit FAT) and 4 (16-bit FAT) as well as floppy formats. Partition type 6 (size exceeding 32MB) filesystems can be mounted safely if the cluster size does not exceed 16K. (For 2.2-BETA and -current, this limitations does not apply.) > Do people have experience mounting Windows 95 level DOS filesystems? The partition types already mentioned work (with loss of long filenames). More recently introduced types (ie. VFAT32) won't. -- Robert Nordier
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