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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: mount_msdos in 3.0-current
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On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Gregory James Hormann wrote:

> I have been attempting to mount my dos directory in FreeBSD.  The
> partition is over 1GB in size.  When I try to mount it, I get the
> following message:
> 
> /kernel mountmsdosdf(): Warning root directory is not a multiple of the
> clustersize in length
> 
> How bad is that?  I thought the problems with >1GB DOS filesystems was
> corrected?

Bad.  Very bad.  Dismount your DOS filesystem and hope it wasn't damaged
:(  -- And never mount it until we confirm it's totally fixed.

I thought so as well, but apparently not...this should be reported to
current@freebsd.org.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major