From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Apr 10 04:29:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA29976 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 04:29:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.ukrv.de (gatekeeper.ukrv.de [193.175.72.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA29971 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 04:28:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by gatekeeper.ukrv.de; (5.65/1.1.8.2/17Oct95-0336PM) id AA25229; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 13:28:22 +0200 Received: from mailhost(193.175.66.33) by gatekeeper.ukrv.de via smap (V1.3-JSC) id sma001917; Thu Apr 10 13:28:05 1997 Received: from merlin.ukrv.de by mailhost.ukrv.de; (5.65/1.1.8.2/08Mar95-0213PM) id AA01724; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 13:28:04 +0200 Received: by merlin.ukrv.de (4.1/UKRV-Gen PCG 0.1) id AA22355; Thu, 10 Apr 97 13:28:04 +0200 From: Udo Wolter Message-Id: <9704101128.AA22355@merlin.ukrv.de> Subject: Re: ports/3205: Mtools-3.0 fails to WRITE to dos partition under 2.2 (fix supplied) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 13:28:03 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org, uwp@ukrv.de In-Reply-To: <199704101031.UAA31370@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 10, 97 08:31:55 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 !!!