Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 11:18:11 -0700 From: "Steve Galle" <steveg@wavefront.wti.com> To: AlexAdroog@aol.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MSDOS Partition Message-ID: <9505121118.ZM5308@walrus.wti.com> In-Reply-To: AlexAdroog@aol.com "MSDOS Partition" (May 10, 12:59am) References: <950510005457_113321871@aol.com>
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Alex (and anyone else who hasn't yet made the same mistake I did!), You have a time bomb on your hands. Mine just blew a few days ago. The problem is that even though you did the fdisk and set the new partitioning, the disklabel is still telling dos it has the whole disk to play with. Of course, a bunch of it is no longer doses (uh, that's dos es) property. This will eventually let dos do something you'll really wish it hadn't. I don't know what the most graceful way to recover from this is; probably you'll need to back up the dos partition, change the disklabel to reflect the changes to your drive partitions, and (probably) reload from your backup. Maybe someone else has a better solution. The only thing I can suggest is that you should probably fix the condition before it forces you to do so. It has really unpleasant ways of letting you know you need to take care of the problem. This should also probably be made known as a possible problem at install time... Good luck; drop me a line if someone feeds you a better solution. -steve On May 10, 12:59am, AlexAdroog@aol.com wrote: > Subject: MSDOS Partition > I recently insatallled FreeBSD v2.0 > I have a maxtor 7546 AT drive on a generic vlb conroller. > Originally i had all the available space allocated for PCDOS. > Through the FreeBSD boot process, i edited that slice and changed it to 250 > megs for PCDOS. I also allocated about 270 to FreeBSD. I loaded the Bindist's > through the dos mount and everything went hunky dorry. > Now when i am in dos (through an active partition after a shutdown and I do a > diskspace check it is showing 370 +- megs allocated for dos (i have the rest > of dos taken up by programs). What gives? should not my dos partition have > reduced and show maybe 170 or so megs? > Also, the dos partion does not mount at startup. I get a message somewhat > like this... > > msdos: stat /dos invalid file (etc). > > maybe the controller? anybody have any experiance with this or suggestions? > > ThanX in advance! > > Timothy > > >-- End of excerpt from AlexAdroog@aol.com
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