From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 23 21:16:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA19347 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 21:16:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA19335 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 21:16:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA24844; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 13:46:40 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199608240416.NAA24844@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: DOS root directory? To: brianc@pobox.com Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 13:46:39 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199608240139.VAA00296@ottawa.net> from "Brian Campbell" at Aug 23, 96 09:39:35 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian Campbell stands accused of saying: > > When I mount my DOS C drive (formatted by W95's format for W95) I get: > mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple of > the clustersize in length > > Is this a serious or important warning, or just something the author > didn't think would happen and wanted to be informed of? It indicates that your DOS partition was shrunk at some sage, probably by FIPS or a similar tool. The FreeBSD MSDOSFS appears particularly unreliable with such filesystems; I would advise extreme caution. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[