Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 11:46:46 +0930 From: Garth Kidd <garth@dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au> To: Marcio Migueletto de Andrade <mar@sis.dcc.ufmg.br>, jwb@xioa.cosmic.org Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org, fs@FreeBSD.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Subject: Re: file system corruption after doing a find Message-ID: <960424090106.ZM2871@jolt.systems.sa.gov.au> In-Reply-To: Marcio Migueletto de Andrade <mar@sis.dcc.ufmg.br> <"Re: file system corruption after doing a find"@state.systems.sa.gov.au> (Apr 19, 9:49) References: <9604191249.AA16304@sis.dcc.ufmg.br>
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On Apr 19, 9:49, Marcio Migueletto de Andrade wrote:
> Subject: Re: file system corruption after doing a find
> Joe Beiter wrote:
>
> > Three partitions, Winblows 95 on first ~400MB (plus that swap out
> > thing)
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 60MB of swap on third
> > Balance on second (Freebsd).
> >
> > Twice this has happend after executing a find. I run find and it
> > corrupts the file system where it looks. My last one was a find
> > off root. Practically the entire file system was trashed.
>
> I had exactly the same problem and the culprit was a FAT file system
> mounted under FreeBSD. Just removed that mount and everything was fine.
>
> By the way, I did not use FIPS. The first hard disk (wd0) was
> entirely devoted to Win95 and the second (wd1) to FreeBSD.
> I was mounting wd0 as /win95 on wd1.
This makes me very, very worried. I'm about to bring a tape full of
precious data from work to home, and half of it is DOS-type stuff I'll need
to lob onto the DOS partition on my 4GB disk. If msdosfs is sufficiently
broken that I'm endangering my filesystem integrity by doing so...
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