From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 16:54:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA17033 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 16:54:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (slipper17a.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.83]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA16980; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 16:53:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA15125; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:52:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:52:22 -0500 (EST) From: jack X-Sender: jack@localhost To: Gregory James Hormann cc: dyson@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Gregory James Hormann wrote: > 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. I get that message everytime I mount my ~15meg DOS partition and haven't lost anything yet. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------