From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 2 15:58:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA28675 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 May 1997 15:58:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (196-31-98-46.iafrica.com [196.31.98.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA28664 for ; Fri, 2 May 1997 15:58:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id AAA15099; Sat, 3 May 1997 00:56:11 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199705022256.AAA15099@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: Current status of msdosfs (yet again) In-Reply-To: from Jay Nelson at "May 2, 97 04:50:47 pm" To: jdn@qiv.com (Jay Nelson) Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 00:56:10 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jay Nelson wrote: > I have 2.2.1-RELEASE running at work and I'm being forced to soil myself > with Windows. I mounted dos from X, didn't see the messages and tried > moving some files. Everything worked fine. Is it safe to use msdosfs or > was I just lucky? The problem where the msdosfs corrupted other filesystems should not occur in any 2.2.x-RELEASE. > This is on a 1.6Gb IDE repartitioned with fips. Is there any way I can > control the cluster size if I reformat or will dos fdisk/format take care > of the problem? If you used FIPS, it is a good idea to reformat. Allow DOS format to choose the cluster size. (Having the default cluster size is always good: that way, if DOS/Win itself becomes confused, it won't chop your filesystem into small little pieces. :-) The 2.2 msdosfs is no longer "cluster size sensitive", though; so a reformat is not absolutely required. The msdosfs is reasonably safe for copying files DOS<->BSD. But stay away from anything much more than that (eg. moving directories can cause problems). -- Robert Nordier