Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:54:59 -0800 (PST) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net> To: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSDOS filesystems being corrupted? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812282243120.286-100000@vanessa.eliuk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.981229000802.26888B-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu>
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On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:
> > Recently (past few months, unable to be more specific, sorry) I've noticed my
> > msdos partitions being declared "damaged" by Nortun Utilities under win95
> > after I've been writing to them under freebsd (specifically, disk doctor will
> > find lost clusters and "repair" them by removing the file.) All I usually need
> > to do is create a few (large? The last one which got reaped was about 40MB)
> > files on the DOS partition - I don't notice any problems accessing them under
> > bsd.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this behaviour?
> >
> I have seen this behavior, but only on floppies, that's wierd about your
> norton, Scandisk doesn't give me any problems on my msdos partition, but I
> don't put large files there. I mostly just read from that disk.
After a recent botch with partition magic I was able to recover 1.5MB of
files, reformat the partition and replace them. Other than some serious
fragmentation as far as I know nothing was lost, actually I think the
performance improved :)
I believe this was after a Dec22 build.
Could it be something in NU.
--
Regards,
Kevin G. Eliuk
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