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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 09:26:49 +0100
From: Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>
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Willie Viljoen <will@laserfence.net>
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Subject: Re: Stange filesystem problem revisited...
Reply-To: Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun Jun  9 09:23:44 BST 2002
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--- Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Willie Viljoen wrote:
> > [ ... ]
> > This morning, when I got to the machine, the problem had returned.
> > Could this have anything to do with the mounted FAT32 file systems? 
> > If so, why does it not appear when those FAT32s are mounted, but have
> > nothing on them?

> Most likely, the Windows partition overlaps the BSD partition,
> or there is a difference in observed geometry between the BSD
> and DOS view of the drive.  The other alternative is that it's
> "just coincidence" (unlikely).
> 
> You didn't say what the box was.  If you enabled power management,
> the BSD partition may be being used by the box as the "sleep"
> partition (old IBM Thinkpad BIOS identified the first non-DOS
> partition as the sleep partition, for example).  So turning on APM
> may have caused the problems (also unlikely: generally, such an
> occurance would render the FreeBSD partition unbootably corrupt).

Hmm.  Shouldn't this kind of info be put in the FreeBSD-FAQ and the
bit about old IBM Thinkpad laptops in the laptop article as a
pre-caution?

Just an FYI.

-- 
Hiten Pandya
hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, hiten@xMach.org
WWW: http://storm.uk.FreeBSD.org/~hiten/

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