From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 4 21:49:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA25291 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 21:49:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from knights.cc.ucf.edu (root@knights.cc.ucf.edu [132.170.246.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA25286 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 21:49:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from port7.2c.tserver.ucf.edu(really [132.170.24.109]) by knights.cc.ucf.edu via sendmail with esmtp id for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 00:43:38 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #14 built 1996-Oct-22) Message-Id: From: "Breakdown" Cc: Subject: Re: (DOS) Partition Size / Cluster Size. Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 00:45:25 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1160 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I still get that same error message even though I never FIPS-ed my hard drive... Just to clarify :-). Martin ---------- > From: Doug White > To: Robert Clark > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: (DOS) Partition Size / Cluster Size. > Date: Tuesday, March 04, 1997 8:08 PM > > On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Robert Clark wrote: > > > (DOS) > > Partition Size Cluster Size > > 1-31MB 512bytes > > 32-63MB 1k > > 64-127MB 2k > > 128-255MB 4k > > 256-511MB 8k > > 512-1023MB 16k > > 1024-2047MB 32k > > > > If you use FIPS to shrink a > > partition, don't cross a boundary > > above? > > Yes it does, and it makes FreeBSD's msdosfs code go bonkers. DOS can > handle it though. THat's why FIPS'd volumes are often ususable with > FreeBSD (you get the Warning: root is not a multiple of clustersize in > length or somesuch). > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major >