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Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 1997 07:55:51 -0500 (EST)
From:      Gregory James Hormann <ghormann@indiana.edu>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: (DOS) Partition Size / Cluster Size.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.970305075319.3038B-100000@wawasee.read.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199703050916.EAA28158@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, John S. Dyson wrote:

> > > 
> > > 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.

Yea, but when your are running -current (before Lite/2) it shouldn't be a
problem, but I already trashed / once by mounting that partition there.

Greg.


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