Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 21:56:38 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: kfurge@worldnet.att.net, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is MSDOS FS OK? Message-ID: <359B7C7E.AF64B3D@camtech.net.au> References: <Pine.OSF.3.90.980702171027.17544A-100000@bragg>
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I regularly read and write my FAT32 dos partition these days without problem. There were major problems in the past. I badly trashed a FAT16 partition when writing to it after mounting from a FreeBSD boot disk from a 2.2 Snapshot of 23 March 1996. Kris Kennaway wrote: > > For what it's worth, I have msdosfs running fine on 3 partitions (I dont > recall having any problems since a nasty root cluster size problem was > fixed back in the early 2.2 days last year). I use my /d and /e to store > archived stuff on fairly regularly. > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/wd0s1 872640 749120 123520 86% /c > /dev/wd1s1 1023824 983776 40048 96% /d > /dev/wd1s5 511760 308720 203040 60% /e > > I don't recall any problems hitting the mailing list recently, so I'd > guess the fs is fairly stable. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- /=====================================================================\ |Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au| \=====================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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