From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 12 14:49:10 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA00805 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:49:10 -0700 Received: from aslan.cdrom.com (aslan.cdrom.com [192.216.223.142]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA00796 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:49:04 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA03957; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:46:38 -0700 Message-Id: <199510122146.OAA03957@aslan.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: aslan.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Gary Palmer cc: "Dima (ELO)" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Oct 1995 22:16:00 BST." <1384.813532560@palmer.demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:46:37 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >"Dima (ELO)" stands accused of writing in message ID >: >>Hello, I have a problem. When I start FreeBSD it says: > >>mountmsdosfs(): root directory is not multiple of clustersize length > >It's not an error, it's a warning. The mount of your MSDOS filesystem >still suceeds. I think that the text should be changed (or deleted) to >make it more clear that it is a WARNING and does NOT indicate >failure... > >Gary Well, if you thought the corruption was bad when you don't see this message, you haven't seen anything yet! Its much worse on large drives. I'd rather fix the bug then chage the error message. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================