Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 23:42:21 +0300 (MSK) From: "Vitaly A. Repin" <vitaly@radio.hop.stu.neva.ru> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re:Re: troubles with DOS partition (was: 2 questions from the beginner) Message-ID: <ADTZ0su4yE@radio.hop.stu.neva.ru>
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To: Studded@dal.net >> 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? > First thing you should do is take out that fstab entry and umount that > parition. Ok. I've done it. Thank you very much for warning about the chance of data loss on my FreeBSD partition. > I am guessing that you used fips to shrink your dos partition. I used Partition Magic to do this. But, it seems to me, there are not many differences between these two programs. > In any case, the > solution is to back up all your data, use dos fdisk to wipe out both > partitions and repartition your drive, then reinstall everything. Yes, I > know this is bad news, but if you want to access your dos partition > regularly from freebsd this is the safest way. Oh. It's a VERY bad news for me. Are you sure, it's "the first and the last" solution of my problem? > Good luck, > Doug > -- > *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** > *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest > *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. > *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) Thank you for your suggestions. Good-bye. WBR, Vitaly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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