From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 28 22:56:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA29146 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:56:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vanessa.eliuk.org (pme37.sunshine.net [209.17.178.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA29138 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:56:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by vanessa.eliuk.org (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA00469; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:55:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cagey@vanessa.eliuk.org) Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:54:59 -0800 (PST) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" Reply-To: "Kevin G. Eliuk" To: Kenneth Wayne Culver cc: Kris Kennaway , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSDOS filesystems being corrupted? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > Recently (past few months, unable to be more specific, sorry) I've noticed my > > msdos partitions being declared "damaged" by Nortun Utilities under win95 > > after I've been writing to them under freebsd (specifically, disk doctor will > > find lost clusters and "repair" them by removing the file.) All I usually need > > to do is create a few (large? The last one which got reaped was about 40MB) > > files on the DOS partition - I don't notice any problems accessing them under > > bsd. > > > > Has anyone else seen this behaviour? > > > I have seen this behavior, but only on floppies, that's wierd about your > norton, Scandisk doesn't give me any problems on my msdos partition, but I > don't put large files there. I mostly just read from that disk. After a recent botch with partition magic I was able to recover 1.5MB of files, reformat the partition and replace them. Other than some serious fragmentation as far as I know nothing was lost, actually I think the performance improved :) I believe this was after a Dec22 build. Could it be something in NU. -- Regards, Kevin G. Eliuk Discover Rock Solid, Discover FreeBSD | http://www.FreeBSD.Org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message