From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 21 07:17:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA19415 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 07:17:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (196-31-98-47.iafrica.com [196.31.98.47]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA19386 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 07:17:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id RAA05277; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 17:14:58 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199703211514.RAA05277@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: Coping Files From MS-DOS to a BSD Partitian? In-Reply-To: from "Matthew D. Fuller" at "Mar 21, 97 05:01:17 am" To: fullermd@keystone.westminster.edu (Matthew D. Fuller) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 17:14:57 +0200 (SAT) Cc: kodiak@Rigel.orionsys.com, uwp@ukrv.de, 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 Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > I've not had many, if any problems, writing to MSDOS floppies, but I've > had tons of problems w/ the partition on the hard disk. First, when I > first mount it, I get a messages on the console about 'root directory not > a multiple of cluster size', or something like that. Then, sometime, > when I unmount it (like just happened about 10 minutes ago), it screws up > my BSD filesystem immesurably, Once, it even forced my to completely > reinstall. So I generally don't even mount by DOS filesystem on the hard > disk EVER!!! I even use the readonly mask, and it still screws the BSD > filesystem. I haven't had any trouble with the DOS filesystem, but it > could just be a matter of time. If your DOS filesystem has a cluster size exceeding 16K, don't use any FreeBSD release earlier than 2.2. It's that simple. :-) If you follow the rule above, the msdosfs is quite usable. It has various bugs, but it works reasonably well for simple operations. > I would be VERY VERY VERY interested in hearing more about MSDOS > filesystem support. If my meager programming abilities could help this > endeavor, I'd glady donate some time, but it's presently a BAD situation > with the DOS filesystem. Maybe in 3.0 ...? Work on a msdosfs replacement, which can also handle VFAT, is fairly near completion. I've been waiting for 3.0 current to settle down a bit, and for some free time, in order to finish it. -- Robert Nordier