Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 00:02:48 -0500 From: donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) To: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mountmsdosfs() warning? Message-ID: <199611271609.AAA06741@ms1.hinet.net>
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-=*> Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it> wrote: >> mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple >> of the clustersize in length. >> when I tried to mount a DOS partition, the DOS partition was >> still mounted in and worked ok though. > Probably the partition you are trying to mount is bigger than 1gb or > it has cluster of 32kb. But my DOS partition, /dev/sd0s5, is only 280mb. :) > If you want to use msdos fs with FreeBSD you must use partition that use > clusters of 16kb or less. I have no problems at all with those, while I > have trashed a lot of times my Hd using dos partition with clusters of 32kb > :-) I should describe this problem in detail... The DOS partition was only 250mb in the same node /dev/sd0s5, there was no problem at all to mounting it in /dos. I increased it to 280mb couple days ago, my BSD began to panic about this. // Donny
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