Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 04:16:09 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: ghormann@indiana.edu (Gregory James Hormann) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, ROBERTC@PII.COM, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (DOS) Partition Size / Cluster Size. Message-ID: <199703050916.EAA28158@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970304214101.1000A-100000@wawasee.read.indiana.edu> from "Gregory James Hormann" at Mar 4, 97 09:42:59 pm
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> > > > 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). > > Even though I never used FIPS, I still get that error when I try to mount > a 1GB drive who's only partition is a DOS partition 1GB long. > Cluster sizes > 16K is the real problem. If you have such a filesystem on FreeBSD V2.1.X, then it is best to use MTOOLS. John
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