Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 12:08:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Pete McNab <stillers@slip.net> Cc: ghormann@indiana.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_msdos in 3.0-current Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970123120455.6018R-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <E0vnM2P-0004IO-00@slip-3.slip.net>
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On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Pete McNab wrote: > 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. This is your problem. FIPS does something bad that FreeBSD doesn't like. > I wonder if FIPS causes this in some ways, by modifying an > existing 'partition', instead of initially creating a whole new > 'partition'. It's rather bad in that it does not adjust the clustersize when it splits partitions. 1.2GB disks have something like a 64k clustersize; dropping it to 700mb may actually need a 32k clustersize, but FIPS doesn't change it. > 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. You got it. > Oddly, the DOS partition survived intact. I don't know how I should > feel about that :) That is the latest nuance: the DOS fs lives but the BSD fs dies. It used to be the other way around. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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