From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 2 05:27:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA11864 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 05:27:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from goliath.camtech.net.au (goliath.camtech.net.au [203.5.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA11855 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 05:27:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thyerm@camtech.net.au) Received: from camtech.net.au (dialup-ad-3-12.camtech.net.au [203.28.0.108]) by goliath.camtech.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id VAA02860; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 21:53:43 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <359B7C7E.AF64B3D@camtech.net.au> Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 21:56:38 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway CC: kfurge@worldnet.att.net, "Daniel O'Connor" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is MSDOS FS OK? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I regularly read and write my FAT32 dos partition these days without problem. There were major problems in the past. I badly trashed a FAT16 partition when writing to it after mounting from a FreeBSD boot disk from a 2.2 Snapshot of 23 March 1996. Kris Kennaway wrote: > > For what it's worth, I have msdosfs running fine on 3 partitions (I dont > recall having any problems since a nasty root cluster size problem was > fixed back in the early 2.2 days last year). I use my /d and /e to store > archived stuff on fairly regularly. > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/wd0s1 872640 749120 123520 86% /c > /dev/wd1s1 1023824 983776 40048 96% /d > /dev/wd1s5 511760 308720 203040 60% /e > > I don't recall any problems hitting the mailing list recently, so I'd > guess the fs is fairly stable. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- /=====================================================================\ |Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au| \=====================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message