From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 09:13:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA20916 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 09:13:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [198.145.127.110]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA20911 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 09:13:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from block.statsci.com by main.statsci.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tXWkG-000r3sC; Wed, 3 Jan 96 09:13 PST Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by block.statsci.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA01158; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 09:12:59 -0800 Message-Id: <199601031712.JAA01158@block.statsci.com> To: Chuck Robey cc: Binh Do , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD be visible from Win95? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jan 1996 15:51:57 -0500." Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 09:12:59 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Chuck Robey wrote: > Reading from dos partitions seems to be pretty safe, but there is a bug No...it depends on what you've been doing to your partitions to get where you are. In my case, I used FIPS to shrink my DOS slice to make room for UNIX. It appears that FIPS does something (legal) to the DOS FAT that the FreeBSD msdosfs can't understand (DOS, NT and Linux have no problems with it). When mounting my DOS slices (even read-only), I ended up getting corrupt BSD file systems. I think someone has suggested that it might also be related to the DOS slice being before my BSD slice on the disk (but that's the way FIPS works - defrag [move used space to start of partition], then split it). > in the msdos filesystem implementation (FreeBSD's implementation) and > writing, while it is possible to force it, is a very bad idea. I don't > think I'd do it, without an awfully good reason, and a complete backup of > the disk involved. Yes, make sure your backups are up to date. In my case, I just avoid mount DOS partitions at all for the time being. Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc. 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org