Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 23:17:41 +0300 (MSK) From: "Vitaly A. Repin" <vitaly@radio.hop.stu.neva.ru> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 2 questions from the beginner Message-ID: <ABL6hrueo0@radio.hop.stu.neva.ru>
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Hello, All!
Two questions from the new user of FreeBSD (I've installed
FreeBSD 2.2.5 RELEASE):
1) There are two partitions (in MS notation) on my HDD. The first is
for Win95 (its type is FAT16) and the second is for FreeBSD.
I want to read and write files from the first partition using FreeBSD.
Ok, I've read man pages and add the following line in /etc/fstab:
/dev/wd0s1 /dos_hdd msdos rw 0 2
When system starts it dispays the warning from mountmsdosfs(): "root
directory isn't a multiple of the clustersize in length".
Manual displays that writing on MS-DOS filesystem can produce the corruption
of the data and that it is "shortcoming in the code which needs to be
addressed".
The question is: what should I do to imrove this situation?
2) If I try to mount the FDD (for example) when there is no floppy disk
in the drive, FreeBSD displays error messages ("Error reading...,
Input/Output error...").
The question is: how can I mount my "empty" FDD? (I want to automount my FDD
when system starts, using fstab.)
Thanks.
Good-bye.
WBR, Vitaly.
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