From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 22 16:46:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09582 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 16:46:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay1.kar.net (relay1.kar.net [195.5.17.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09576 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 16:46:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kushn@dracula.info.kiev.ua) Received: from olinet.isf.kiev.ua by relay1.kar.net with ESMTP id CAA22238; (8.8.last/vAk3/1.9) Mon, 23 Mar 1998 02:44:17 +0200 (EET) Received: from kushnir.kiev.ua by olinet.isf.kiev.ua with SMTP id CAA19859; (8.8.last/vAk3/1.9) Mon, 23 Mar 1998 02:35:01 +0200 (EET) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 02:40:12 +0200 (EET) From: Vladimir Kushnir X-Sender: volodya@kushnir.kiev.ua To: "Vitaly A. Repin" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: troubles with DOS partition (was: 2 questions from the beginner) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Vitaly A. Repin wrote: > > 2.2.5 RELEASE. Probably, new enough > > SysInfo from NU7.0 displays that my DOS partition's cluster is 8k. Sorry, I meant "partition large or shrinked (see below) > > "FreeBSD 2.1 and earlier versions could not handle cluster sizes larger > than 16K. Just mounting an MS-DOS file system could cause corruption to > any mounted file system. Cluster sizes larger than 16K are unavoidable > for file system sizes larger than 1G, and also occur when filesystems > larger than 1G are shrunk to smaller than 1G using FIPS." > > All capacity of my hdd is 850M. :(. But I've used the Partition Magic > for DOS partition. > > > And under -current mount_msdos doesn't seem to even have this message > ^^^^^^^^ > What does it mean? if it means "the current version of mount_msdos > doesn't display this message", that you aren't right. But you > write "-current" and I haven't understood you. I referred to FreeBSD-current (don't know about FreeBSD-stable - I haven't got one) > > > anymore (in code, I mean). So if your release is new enough, you probably > > have nothing to worry about. > > Unfortunately, it displays me the warning message. It's what I used to get under 2.2.2-RELEASE. There wasn't anything except this warning, though: no data loss, no FS corruption (God save!) - just warning and that was all. > > Thank you for your time! No sweat. You'd probably ask someone else as well, though; after all, my computer is just a home PC and not a production system. > > Good-bye. > WBR, Vitaly. > Regards, Vladimir To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message