From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 11 07:36:57 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA09168 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 07:36:57 -0800 Received: from freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (freenet.edmonton.ab.ca [198.161.206.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA09157 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 07:36:54 -0800 Received: by freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/FEAC1.002) id AA42349; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 08:24:10 -0700 Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 08:24:10 -0700 (MST) From: billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Panic on CP to MSDOS Floppy Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk When I do the following: #mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /a #cp -p file.name /a then I get: cp: chown: /a/file.name: Invalid argument panic: msdosfs_unlock: denode not locked and of course my system reboots. (This is 2.0R and I am logged on as root.) Cp works o.k. if I omit the -p but then of course the file copied to the floppy has a new date/time of modification, not what I wanted. What am I doing wrong? (I'm a UN*X and FreeBSD newbie, though not new to computers.) Isn't a panic a rather extreme reaction to an attempt to copy a file (even if invalid)? <> ------------------------------------------------- Bill Lee E-mail: billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Edmonton, Alberta, Canada