From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 16:37:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA19613 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 16:37:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA19604 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 16:36:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from downlink.eng.umd.edu (downlink.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.182]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA23287; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 19:36:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by downlink.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA15899; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 19:36:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 19:36:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@downlink.eng.umd.edu To: Tim Vanderhoek cc: Tim Vanderhoek , Derek Law , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i have a question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > Just to make that a little clearer, it's fine to read the dos partition, > > but the risky part comes in WRITING TO the dos partition. I've never > > seen the least problem reading the data. Probably safest to do the mount > > as a read only mount. > > On my 2.2-960501-SNAP system here, just listing some of the files on my DOS > slice will cause all my FreeBSD partitions to become ruined well beyond my > ability to repair. Maybe a bug in the -SNAP code I didn't hear about. Let me get this right: you mounted a dos partition, and when you did an ls on it, this damaged your FreeBSD partitions? I'd never heard of this before, I want to get it straight. > > Floppies, of course, mount finely. > > -- > Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! > tIM...HOEk > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------