From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 14:42:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA28905 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 14:42:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [198.145.127.110]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA28895 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 14:42:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from block.statsci.com by main.statsci.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tNp1L-000r3tC; Thu, 7 Dec 95 14:42 PST Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by block.statsci.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA07046; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 14:42:30 -0800 Message-Id: <199512072242.OAA07046@block.statsci.com> To: Terry Lambert cc: tb@MO.NET (Timothy Brown), questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystems corrupted - what's up with this? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 Dec 1995 13:15:24 -0700." <199512072015.NAA05419@phaeton.artisoft.com> Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 14:42:28 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert wrote: > > Okay... just installed FreeBSD the other day and I like it a lot. This > > morning and last night i've had to deal with massive filesystem > > corruption. A lotof files are getting screwed up and i'm not sure what > > to do. > > Are you using msdos FS in read/write mode? Sounds like what I get when I mount an msdosfs in ANY mode (read/write OR read-only) on my 2.0.5-RELEASE system (I haven't been brave enough to try it ont the 2.1.0-mumble-SNAP system I have access to). It seemed to be related, somehow, to having used FIPS to shrink my DOS partitions to make room for a real OS. From discussions I've seen, it seems to be a problem in the FreeBSD msdosfs (as opposed to FIPS) - mounting the DOS partitions seems to work just dandy from DOS/Windows, Windows NT and Linux. I bailed out of the idea of mounting my DOS slices under FreeBSD. I either switch to Linux or use 'mtools' to monkey around with my DOS drives from a UNIX. Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc. 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org