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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Installation of 2.1.1
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> > Be careful mounting FIPSd DOS partitions, FreeBSD will wreck them.  The 
> > MSDOSFS code is being updated.
> 
> Has there been any indications that non-FIPSd DOS partitions encounter this problem?

No.  It seems entirely related to a reduction in the number of actual
clusters for a given cluster size going unnoticed by the FS.

Which is to say, it writes out more clusters than it has when updating
the on disk image.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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