From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 13 23:33:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA01863 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:33:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA01856 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:33:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00447; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:33:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:33:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Gianmarco Giovannelli cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: msdosfs broken... In-Reply-To: <3.0b35.32.19961013175551.0071b4f4@masternet.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > Is it possible that msdosfs is unable to work properly when there is a > partition greater than 1gb (i.e. with clusters of 32kb ?). The warning > complaing about the root is not a multiple of cluster size in length is not > enough , even mounting in ro is a possible danger... Yes, msdosfs is "broken" in this regard. When you get that message, unmount the filesystem IMMEDIATELY and never mount it again, it IS destructive! > I did an installation of a new box with 2.2 -current and I didn't notice > when it booted the warning... at the first locate.updatedb --> a lot of the > disk trashed ! > > Several months ago someone was asking beta tester for trying to correct > this, is there any news about it ? I haven't heard on msdosfs updates in quite a while. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major