From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 21 14:42:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA18698 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 14:42:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from goodall.u.washington.edu (durang@goodall.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.163]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA18679 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 14:42:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (durang@localhost) by goodall.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW96.12/8.8.4+UW97.03) with SMTP id OAA91099; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 14:42:21 -0800 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 14:42:21 -0800 (PST) From: "K. Marsh" To: Robert Nordier cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" , kodiak@Rigel.orionsys.com, uwp@ukrv.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Coping Files From MS-DOS to a BSD Partitian? In-Reply-To: <199703211514.RAA05277@eac.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Robert Nordier wrote: > 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 can vouch for that. I have used my DOS filesystem extensively in FreeBSD, reading, writing, using Unix zip and unzip, etc. My only complaint is the ^M character that pops up in text files due to DOS/Unix differences. I've not had any errors pop up in FreeBSD or DOS, including lost sectors, etc. IMHO FreeBSD's DOS support is in great shape. I suppose I'm just lucky to have 8K clusters in my FAT. _ _ __ _ _ / \ / \ / | / \ / \ University of Washington () | | / / / / | \ | | Chemical Engineering /\ | |/ / / /_ | \ \ | | | / / | | |\ \ | | | \ \ __| | | \ \| | | |\ \ \ \ | | \ | I bask in my own insignificance. | | \ \ \ \ | | \ | \_/ \_\ \_| \_/ \_/