From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 22 14:25:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA15789 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 14:25:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from citadel.stu.neva.ru (root@citadel.stu.neva.ru [194.85.96.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA15776 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 14:25:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vitaly@radio.hop.stu.neva.ru) Received: from radio by citadel.stu.neva.ru with UUCP id <569722-223>; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 01:27:20 +0300 Received: by radio.hop.stu.neva.ru (dMail for DOS v2.04d, 11Oct96); Mon, 23 Mar 1998 01:23:22 +0300 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: Organization: SPSTU From: "Vitaly A. Repin" Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 01:23:22 +0300 (MSK) X-Mailer: dMail [Demos Mail for DOS v2.04d] Subject: Re: troubles with DOS partition (was: 2 questions from the beginner) Lines: 49 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > In any case, the > > solution is to back up all your data, use dos fdisk to wipe out both > > partitions and repartition your drive, then reinstall everything. Yes, I > > know this is bad news, but if you want to access your dos partition > > regularly from freebsd this is the safest way. > Sorry, Doug, I'm not sure it still holds. > Vitaly, what release of FreeBSD you're running? 2.2.5 RELEASE. > If I'm correct (which not necessarilly so) this message tells you that > you've got large DOS partition (with clusters >16k). I used to see it under 2.1 and 2.2.2, but > here's from man mount_msdos under -current: SysInfo from NU7.0 displays that my DOS partition's cluster is 8k. "FreeBSD 2.1 and earlier versions could not handle cluster sizes larger than 16K. Just mounting an MS-DOS file system could cause corruption to any mounted file system. Cluster sizes larger than 16K are unavoidable for file system sizes larger than 1G, and also occur when filesystems larger than 1G are shrunk to smaller than 1G using FIPS." All capacity of my hdd is 850M. :(. But I've used the Partition Magic for DOS partition. > And under -current mount_msdos doesn't seem to even have this message ^^^^^^^^ What does it mean? if it means "the current version of mount_msdos doesn't display this message", that you aren't right. But you write "-current" and I haven't understood you. > anymore (in code, I mean). So if your release is new enough, you probably > have nothing to worry about. Unfortunately, it displays me the warning message. > Regards, Vladimir Thank you for your time! Good-bye. WBR, Vitaly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message