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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: mount msdos partition problem
To: vladimir@caf.estnet.ee (Vladimir Loiterstein)
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 11:12:33 -0700 (MST)
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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
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