From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 27 06:00:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA20837 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 06:00:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from scotty.masternet.it (scotty.masternet.it [194.184.65.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA20832 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 06:00:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from gmarco (ts1port14d.masternet.it [194.184.65.36]) by scotty.masternet.it (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA03412; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:00:34 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19961127144829.006d0de4@scotty.masternet.it> X-Sender: gmarco@scotty.masternet.it X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:55:47 +0100 To: donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: Re: mountmsdosfs() warning? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 16.34 27/11/96 -0500, Donny Lee wrote: > I recently have a mount warning like this: > > mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple > of the clustersize in length. > > when I tried to mount a DOS partition, the DOS partition was > still mounted in and worked ok though. > > Somebody know how to get to problem away? Probably the partition you are trying to mount is bigger than 1gb or it has cluster of 32kb. I suggest you to NOT USE such partition, you can trash a lot of your filesystem. Avoid to mount it, and if it is set in the /etc/fstab remove the entry or use the noauto setting. If you want to use msdos fs with FreeBSD you must use partition that use clusters of 16kb or less. I have no problems at all with those, while I have trashed a lot of times my Hd using dos partition with clusters of 32kb :-) Regards... +-------------------------------------+--------------------+ | Internet: gmarco@masternet.it | ,,, | | Internet: gmarco@fi.nettuno.it | (o o) | | http://www2.masternet.it/~gmarco | ---oo0-(_)-0oo--- | | http://www2.masternet.it/ | Gianmarco | +-------------------------------------+--------------------+