Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 20:31:55 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org, uwp@ukrv.de Subject: Re: ports/3205: Mtools-3.0 fails to WRITE to dos partition under 2.2 (fix supplied) Message-ID: <199704101031.UAA31370@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Ok, now here's the solution: mtools-3.5a > >They provide SCSI-support and many bugs have been fixed. I'd suggest to include >this version in the packages. It's hardly recommended for most users like me >who has partitions beyond 1GB because msdosfs can destroy such partitions. Actually, vfs_bio, not msdosfs, in pre-2.2 versions of FreeBSD can destroy all partitions on all disks, not just msdosfs partitions, if a single msdosfs partition with a cluster size of > 16K is mounted, even if it is mounted read-only. msdsofs partitions larger than 1GB have a block size of > 16K, so they have the problem. Smaller partitions may also have the problem, e.g., ones that were shrunk from larger than 1GB to smaller than 1GB using a shrinker that doesn't change the block size. Bruce
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