From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Jun 9 2:21: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD9537B409 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 02:21:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0180.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.180] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17GysM-0003rd-00; Sun, 09 Jun 2002 02:20:43 -0700 Message-ID: <3D031DC7.5C0C6C14@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 02:20:07 -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... References: <20020609094005.I210-100000@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: > For months, this problem seemed to dissapear, then yesterday, I > reinstalled my windows partition (used mostly for games, so, used very > seldom) > > This morning, when I got to the machine, the problem had returned. Could > this have anything to do with the mounted FAT32 file systems? If so, why > does it not appear when those FAT32s are mounted, but have nothing on > them? Most likely, the Windows partition overlaps the BSD partition, or there is a difference in observed geometry between the BSD and DOS view of the drive. The other alternative is that it's "just coincidence" (unlikely). You didn't say what the box was. If you enabled power management, the BSD partition may be being used by the box as the "sleep" partition (old IBM Thinkpad BIOS identified the first non-DOS partition as the sleep partition, for example). So turning on APM may have caused the problems (also unlikely: generally, such an occurance would render the FreeBSD partition unbootably corrupt). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message