From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 02:05:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA11898 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 02:05:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from slip-3.slip.net (slip-3.slip.net [207.171.193.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA11893 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 02:05:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from stillers by slip-3.slip.net with local (Exim 0.57 #1) id 0vnM2P-0004IO-00; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 02:05:41 -0800 Subject: Re: mount_msdos in 3.0-current To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 02:05:40 -0800 (PST) Cc: ghormann@indiana.edu, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Jan 22, 97 10:19:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Message-Id: From: Pete McNab Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Gregory James Hormann wrote: > > I have been attempting to mount my dos directory in FreeBSD. The > > partition is over 1GB in size. When I try to mount it, I get the > > following message: > > > > /kernel mountmsdosdf(): Warning root directory is not a multiple of the > > clustersize in length > > Bad. Very bad. Dismount your DOS filesystem and hope it wasn't damaged > :( -- And never mount it until we confirm it's totally fixed. I am running FreeBSD 2.1.0, and got this when mounting my dos drive which was 500Meg. However, I used FIPS to change the partition information from one that was originally 1.2 Gig to split off 700Meg for FreeBSD. I wonder if FIPS causes this in some ways, by modifying an existing 'partition', instead of initially creating a whole new 'partition'. It mounted ok, but when I ran a find on the /c fs, it choked and ended up nuking all of the filesystems, and I ended up having to reinstall. Oddly, the DOS partition survived intact. I don't know how I should feel about that :) Pete