Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 09:26:49 +0100 From: Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20020609092649.A392@hpdi.ath.cx>
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Willie Viljoen <will@laserfence.net> Bcc: Subject: Re: Stange filesystem problem revisited... Reply-To: Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun Jun 9 09:23:44 BST 2002 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD hpdi.ath.cx 4.3-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Key: http://www.pittgoth.com/~hiten/pubkey.asc --- Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote: > Willie Viljoen wrote: > > [ ... ] > > This morning, when I got to the machine, the problem had returned. > > Could this have anything to do with the mounted FAT32 file systems? > > If so, why does it not appear when those FAT32s are mounted, but have > > nothing on them? > Most likely, the Windows partition overlaps the BSD partition, > or there is a difference in observed geometry between the BSD > and DOS view of the drive. The other alternative is that it's > "just coincidence" (unlikely). > > You didn't say what the box was. If you enabled power management, > the BSD partition may be being used by the box as the "sleep" > partition (old IBM Thinkpad BIOS identified the first non-DOS > partition as the sleep partition, for example). So turning on APM > may have caused the problems (also unlikely: generally, such an > occurance would render the FreeBSD partition unbootably corrupt). Hmm. Shouldn't this kind of info be put in the FreeBSD-FAQ and the bit about old IBM Thinkpad laptops in the laptop article as a pre-caution? Just an FYI. -- Hiten Pandya hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, hiten@xMach.org WWW: http://storm.uk.FreeBSD.org/~hiten/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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