From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 1 00:52:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA07087 for current-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 00:52:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uu.elvisti.kiev.ua (acc0.elvisti.kiev.ua [193.125.28.132]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA07013 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 00:51:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from office.elvisti.kiev.ua (office.elvisti.kiev.ua [193.125.28.129]) by uu.elvisti.kiev.ua (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA03032; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 11:08:04 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (from stesin@localhost) by office.elvisti.kiev.ua (8.6.12/8.ElVisti) id LAA29515; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 11:07:59 +0300 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 11:07:59 +0300 From: "Andrew V. Stesin" Message-Id: <199607010807.LAA29515@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: Problem installing from 2.2-960612-SNAP Cc: current@freebsd.org Organization: ElVisti Information center X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2+] Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <17515.836174545@time.cdrom.com> you wrote: : Nothing, I think. FreeBSD doesn't like your DOS partition and probably : won't until Robert finishes his DOS filesystem rewrite/fix cycle. :-( : I don't know why this happens to some DOS users and not others : (fragment size? partition size? geometry? sunspot activity?) but : it, unfortunately, does. : Jordan Recently I've hear an idea in a russian ...unix newsgroup. One gentleman was saying, that: _if_ you originally had all disk devoted to DOS, _and_ you used FIPS later to repartition your disk and free some space for FreeBSD at the end, _and_ messydos partition became smaller than some "magic" limit -- you lose, 'cause the claster size of msdos partition at the beginning of the disk didn't change (of course) accordingly to the new partition size (cluster size depends on partition size), and this way FreeBSD msdosfs goes crazy and does all kinds of bad things. -- With best regards -- Andrew Stesin. +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560 "You may delegate authority, but not responsibility." Frank's Management Rule #1.