Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 11:12:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: vladimir@caf.estnet.ee (Vladimir Loiterstein) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mount msdos partition problem Message-ID: <199611051812.LAA06655@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <327f36dc.caf@mail.caf.estnet.ee> from "Vladimir Loiterstein" at Nov 5, 96 01:52:49 pm
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> I have 1.2Gb WD E-IDE hard drive. There are two partition on it: > MSDOS and FreeBSD. > For mounting use command mount_msdos. When I mounted msdos > partition to FreeBSD my unix filesystem damaged The msdosfs is damaged. Do not use the msdosfs, or mount only read-only. There is a cluster size problem when you use disks larger than 512 that aren't on a wide bus (ie: IDE > 512M). On very active machines, there are additional problems, and you should not use msdosfs on those machines at all. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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