Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 23:00:19 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net> Cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSDOS filesystems being corrupted? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9901112255500.28540-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812282243120.286-100000@vanessa.eliuk.org>
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On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Kevin G. Eliuk wrote: > On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > > Recently (past few months, unable to be more specific, sorry) I've noticed my > > > msdos partitions being declared "damaged" by Nortun Utilities under win95 > > > after I've been writing to them under freebsd (specifically, disk doctor will > > > find lost clusters and "repair" them by removing the file.) All I usually need > > > to do is create a few (large? The last one which got reaped was about 40MB) > > > files on the DOS partition - I don't notice any problems accessing them under > > > bsd. > > > > > > Has anyone else seen this behaviour? > > > > > I have seen this behavior, but only on floppies, that's wierd about your > > norton, Scandisk doesn't give me any problems on my msdos partition, but I > > don't put large files there. I mostly just read from that disk. > > After a recent botch with partition magic I was able to recover 1.5MB of > files, reformat the partition and replace them. Other than some serious > fragmentation as far as I know nothing was lost, actually I think the > performance improved :) > > I believe this was after a Dec22 build. > > Could it be something in NU. I forgot to reply to this when I investigated further; I copied another large file onto my msdos partition, and after rebooting into win95 Norton Utilities complained about having found a damaged partition. Cancelling the dialog box and running M$ ScanDisk revealed no errors - therefore something is being done by the MSDOS filesystem code which ScanDisk is happy with, but NU is not. Should I open a PR on this? Kris ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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