From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 5 09:20:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA06183 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 09:20:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA06110 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 09:20:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id SAA27551; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 18:20:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 18:20:01 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Niklas Saers Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSDOSFS References: Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse / KRST / PUMS / YASMW X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 05 Apr 1998 18:20:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: Niklas Saers's message of "Sun, 29 Mar 1998 13:08:35 +0200 (CEST)" Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Niklas Saers writes: > Hi. I was just wondering... last night I mounted a MS-DOS floppy, which > had some bad tracks on it. Because of this, I was no longer able to > access, not even umount the floppy. But, what was worse, was that both my > two harddisk-partitions which were mounted as msdosfs became just as > unavaible as the floppy. Why does the entire filesystem go down with one > minor problem such as the floppy? And how can I avoid this. (except from > using bad floppies, that is :) ) Don't mount floppies, use mtools instead. -- fprintf(stderr, "I have a closed mind. It helps keeping the rain out.\n"); To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message