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To: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>
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Subject: Re: Followup: (Re: Current status of msdosfs (yet again)) 
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From: Pierre-Andre van Leeuwen <pvl@nanoteq.com>
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> It appears the msdos filesystem is working just fine. I have a Dell
> Dimension with a cdrom hanging off a vibra 16 sound card, one ide 1.6Gb
> IDE disk, P133 upgraded to 2.2.1-RELEASE off the WC CDROM.
> 
>  1. I mounted the dos slice, 
>  2. tared the whole file system to /usr/tmp,
>  3. rebooted in virus mode, 
>  4. deleted the dos slice, 
>  5. recreated it, 
>  6. formated it,
>  7. sys'd the new slice, 
>  8. renamed io.sys and msdos.sys (to maintain their positions on the disk) 
>  9. then rebooted back to the real world, 
> 10. remounted the dos slice (no errors), 
> 11. untarred the original tarball,
> 12. deleted io.sys, msdos.sys and mv'd the renamed counterparts to *.sys
> 
> The end result is a dos/windows system that works as well as it did
> before, absolutely no errors or corruption and a convenient place to stick
> seldom used tarballs. I've created and deleted complete trees as well as
> files with no problems. If there are any problems, I haven't seen them.
> 
> My compliments to those of you who made this work.. Thanks.
> 
> -- Jay
> 
Same experience/compliments from me :)
pierre

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Pierre-Andre van Leeuwen
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