From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 4 11:49:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA11483 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:49:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA11467 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:48:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA22077; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:48:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:48:34 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Gerard Giamberdine cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting 1 gig IDE drive In-Reply-To: <3319FB4B.2781E494@holly.colostate.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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