From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 11:15:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA26881 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 11:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from internet.spss.com ([192.35.251.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA26871 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 11:15:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmailgw.spss.com (msmailgw.spss.com [192.67.95.6]) by internet.spss.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA07495; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:16:55 GMT Received: by msmailgw.spss.com with Microsoft Mail id <31E15092@msmailgw.spss.com>; Mon, 08 Jul 96 13:16:50 cdt From: "McKinley, Rob" To: Tim Vanderhoek Cc: questions Subject: RE: i have a question Date: Mon, 08 Jul 96 13:16:00 cdt Message-ID: <31E15092@msmailgw.spss.com> Encoding: 36 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ---------- From: Tim Vanderhoek[SMTP:hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca] Sent: Monday, July 08, 1996 12:53 PM To: Chuck Robey Cc: Tim Vanderhoek; Derek Law; questions Subject: Re: i have a question 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. Ditto for me as well with the June 2.2 snap. MTBF was a little under an hour :-( Floppies, of course, mount finely. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk Rob