Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 09:22:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: It seems FreeBSD is crashable... ;-) Message-ID: <XFMail.980628092220.fewtch@serv.net>
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Well, well... I had an interesting experience this morning. I was playing around with mounting my DOS (Win95) partition... works like a charm, actually, I just created a 'dos_drive_c' directory off of /, and used the command: mount_msdos /dev/wd0s2 /dos_drive_c Turns out I can actually access my main Win95 C drive (first hard drive on the primary controller - freeBSD is on a second hard drive on the secondary controller (master), with the CDROM drive as a slave). For some reason, I can't mount the D: drive on the extended partition on the first drive (wd0s3) - perhaps someone who knows more than I do can explain why. Anyway, it's nice to have some extra storage space for temporary stuff in 8.3 filename format, should I need it (highly unlikely), or to grab a text file I had downloaded under Win95 or something. I have it automatically set up to mount now in .login so I can access it anytime I please. I'm aware of the risks of writing to the DOS filesystem from FreeBSD, BTW... and plan to use it mostly for copying FROM the DOS drive TO a directory on my FreeBSD drive. Now, for the crashable part - I have an OS/2 boot manager partition on /dev/wd0s1. Just for kicks, I tried: mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /tmp Guess what... FreeBSD instantly locked up. No keyboard input, no daemons running, nothing... followed by an instant, unclean reboot a few seconds later (all slices dirty on reboot). So it turns out it is possible to completely crash FreeBSD :-) (someone's gonna tell me I should have known that already). BTW, I also figured out how to mount my CDROM drive using mount_cd9660 using the device specified in /etc/fstab. That could be convenient in the future. Tim ---------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> Date: 28-Jun-98 Time: 09:09:12 This message was sent by XFMail under Fvwm2 and FREEBSD. My personal website is at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html Take a look if you have the time - something for everyone there. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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