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Date:      Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:48:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Gerard Giamberdine <gerard@holly.colostate.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mounting 1 gig IDE drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970304114705.21914T-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3319FB4B.2781E494@holly.colostate.edu>

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On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Gerard Giamberdine wrote:

> 	myname /kernel: mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory
> 	is not a multiple of the clustersize in length

1.   this is the death kell for mounting this partition.  this means that
at some point you used FIPS against this partition and shrank it past a
clustersize boundary that DOS determines.  Unfortunately the msdosfs code
can't handle this and most likely will munge your FAT if not your BSD
partition itself.  Do NOT mount this partition!

> plus files seem to get garbled. While I'm at it, are there any
> other factors to address for when I plan to swap dos to the 420M
> and Freebsd to the 1G? Just make sure that / is below 1024 C?

You can't mount this partition.  that is the best I can say.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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