From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 28 18:54:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA17689 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 18:54:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwnexus.wa.com (nwnexus.wa.com [192.135.191.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA17684 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 18:54:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.statsci.com by nwnexus.wa.com with SMTP id AA00273 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Mon, 28 Oct 1996 18:53:58 -0800 Received: from statsci.com [206.63.206.184] with smtp by main.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0vHzs6-0003xaC; Mon, 28 Oct 96 14:09 PST Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: "Drew Derbyshire" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Edward F. Keith" , dev@epsilon.com Subject: Re: Space Monkeys and disk partitions References: <3273059a.kendra@pandora.kew.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:47:46 -0500." <3273059a.kendra@pandora.kew.com> Reply-To: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 14:09:25 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Drew Derbyshire" wrote: > I'll reinstall tomorrow after I zero the disks (the second disk still > has problems caused by the virus), but at least the system will hang > around for a while this time. Also, if you were mounting your DOS partitions from FreeBSD, you might want to stop that. The msdosfs has some known problems (one of which torches the FreeBSD partitions, even if the msdosfs is mounted read-only - it seems to get get triggered if you use FIPS to shrink a partition and/or it is a 63 sectors/track disk). Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org