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From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
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On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Chuck Robey wrote:

> Just to make that a little clearer, it's fine to read the dos partition, 
> but the risky part comes in WRITING TO the dos partition.  I've never 
> seen the least problem reading the data.  Probably safest to do the mount 
> as a read only mount.

On my 2.2-960501-SNAP system here, just listing some of the files on my DOS 
slice will cause all my FreeBSD partitions to become ruined well beyond my 
ability to repair.  Maybe a bug in the -SNAP code I didn't hear about.

Floppies, of course, mount finely.

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