Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 13:28:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: Udo Wolter <uwp@ukrv.de> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: 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: <9704101128.AA22355@merlin.ukrv.de> In-Reply-To: <199704101031.UAA31370@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 10, 97 08:31:55 pm
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> Actually, vfs_bio, not msdosfs, in pre-2.2 versions of FreeBSD can I had problems with msdosfs since 2.0 until now (2.1.6). > 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. This is extremely bad...:-( Maybe there should be a warning before mounting ? Bye, Udo -- Udo Wolter, email: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de !!! LOW-TECH Page: http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~uwp/low-tech.html !!!
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