From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Jun 9 14: 1:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F5FC37B40A for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 14:01:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0102.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.102] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17H9nt-00052c-00; Sun, 09 Jun 2002 14:00:50 -0700 Message-ID: <3D03C1DB.371335B0@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 14:00:11 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willie Viljoen Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange filesystem problem revisited... (follow up) References: <20020609223108.U18802-100000@phoenix.vh.laserfence.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Willie Viljoen wrote: > It turns out Terry was right, the FAT32 partition had (unnoticed) > encroached upon the FreeBSD slice in such a way that the beginning of the > FAT32 primary partition, and the end of the FreeBSD slice were trying to > share the same piece of disk surface. I assume you have it fixed now? This is always a really anoying bug. It shouldn't be possible for it to happen, but it happens often enough that it was the first thing I thought of when you posted. 8-(. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message