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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970226172016.25608C-100000@wawasee.read.indiana.edu> from "Gregory James Hormann" at Feb 26, 97 05:26:19 pm
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> ______________________________________________________________________________
> 
> On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, John S. Dyson wrote:
> > 
> > The problem appears to be fixed in the 2.2 series of code.
> 
> Are you sure about that?  A few months ago I hosed my / partition by
> mounting a 1GB Dos drive and reading a file.
> 
> I've learned that if you ever see this error message:
>  
> /kernel mountmsdosdf(): Warning root directory is not a multiple of the
> clustersize in length
> 
> IMMEDIATELY, unmount your dos partitions or something is going to be lost.
> 
The problem might be two fold.  There was a problem that I fixed that
keeps from messing up both the dos and the rest of your filesystems.  With
such a warning, I would tend to umount it immediately also.  However, the
vast majority of problems appear to be gone now.

John