Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 17:31:02 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkenn@bns.com.au> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Mounting win995 partitions Message-ID: <199702050701.RAA22708@topdown.bns.com.au>
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Okay, I've just been reading through the archives to try and answer my questions, and have got somewhere but not 100% certain on some things. Basically, I want to mount my win95 partitions under freebsd (2.1.0-Rel). When I first installed bsd, I made the mistake of trying to mount the 95 partition read/write, and got the "root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length" msg and trashed the entire partition :-(. Henceforth I've been tentative at mounting at eagain, even read-only, since I also had an experience with a port of unarj (possibly not a 2.1.0 port, which might have been the problem) trashing large parts of my /usr partition when I tried to unarj a file I copied from my read-only msdos drive. Thankfully I was able to recover from this without too much hassle, but I'd rather not go through it again. Was this likely to be related to a buggy mount, unarj, or something else? Incidentally, my win95/freebsd drive was partitioned with FIPS, which may have been the cause of the problem. It's also a fairly large partition, 1GB+, I think. From what I gather, both of these things are relevant. Now, I gather that it's possible to reorganize things to allow me to mount it writable under certain configurations. Is this the case, and if so, exactly how should I go about this? I've just bought another 2.5GB IDE HD which I'm planning on also splitting win95/bsd. Before I do this, how should I set it up so as to maximise performance and preferably allow me to mount the win95 partition(s) read/write. I'm thiniing of keeping 300MB or so for bsd and keeping the rest for win95. Your replies would be most appreciated! Kris || ,-./\ Kris Kennaway || "Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. || ||/ \ || Dead. Dead. Dead. How can you apologize to them?" || ||\_,-*_/ kkenn@ || "I..can't" "Then how can I forgive?" || || v bns.com.au || - G'Kar and Vir, "Comes the Inquisitor", Babylon 5 ||
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