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From: "Riley J. McIntire" <mail.wilshire.net@charmed.wilshire.net>
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To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>, takkala@mail.highstar.com
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> Takkala wrote:
> > 
[snip]

> > 
> > One more thing, at the point where it mounts my msdos partion, i get the
> > error,
> > 
> > mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple of the
> > clustersize in length
> > 
> >  I heard on #freebsd, that this has something to do with using Partion
> > Magic and/or FIPS to repartion MS-DOS drives, is taht true and how do i fix
> > it?
> 
> I think only FIPS gives this problem (not sure). If you use FAT only
> occasinaly, use mtools instead of mounting the partition.
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -Jari
> Nadav
> 

I could be wrong on this so check the archives but that clustersize 
warning indicates a condition that will cause data loss.  It may have 
been fixed in 2.2.x  but I don't see the version number in Nadav's 
reply...

It indicates that fips has shrunk the partition size of a FAT 
filesystem past a cluster size boundary without reducing the 
corresponding cluster size.  When mounting this partition data loss 
_will_ occur during files operations.

Again, check the archives, there's been a lot of discussion on this.  
Apology's if I'm mistaken, but I thought a "heads-up" was indicated.

Cheers,

Riley