Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 18:12:21 -0500 From: ncolicc@ibm.net (Nicolas C. Colicchio) To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic on mounting OS/2 partition (was: "WARNING: / was not properly dismounted" message at reboot time.) Message-ID: <199902272312.XAA48792@out4.ibm.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.3.95.990227141630.-66895A-100000@bb-b1-11a>
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On 02/27/99 at 02:20 PM, Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> said: >> > I'm willing to bet that Win95 corrupted it's slice, and screwed up >> > the entire FAT. Mounting the slice itself just quickened something that >> > was going to happen down the road. Try doing the good ol' fdisk /mbr with >> > a dos boot disk. After that you may want to boot off of FreeBSD boot >> > disk, resetup your slices. Then you'll probally have to nuke and reload >> > Win95 I bet, you maybe able to save it, but I bet that it'll happen again >> > within three months if you use Win95 fairly often. >> >> I don't think this is the Problem here. This setup has been OK for >> over a Year now. > You've had a Win95 partition last a whole year? That's some kind of >record!:) Win95 corrupts it's own files and filesystem. That is why I >personally nuke and reload it on all my systems every six months. It's >also possible that Win95's swap file temporarily took up to much space >and overwrote the filesystem too. (For some reason, win95 swap is to >stupid to realize when it runs out of hard drive space.) It's possible >that you still didn't have the problem, but like I said, I'm willing to >bet that it's part of the problem. The only other thing I can think is >that it's possibly the OS/2 boot manager, I dimly remeber people having >problems with that before. > Rick I have Win95 (and OS/2 as a matter of fact) place the Swap file in a partition i have made only for the Swap File so that it never interferes with the system or Data files. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- ncolicc@ibm.net (Nicolas C. Colicchio) nicolas.colicchio@bmo.com MR/2 ICE #20600 ----------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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