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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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