Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 13:03:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Glynn Stanton <glynn@nol.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970305130120.26669E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.970305042428.2773B-100000@obewan.n-e-t.co.uk>
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On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Glynn Stanton wrote: > > I have what I feel is a serious problem with FreeBSD 2.1.7 > > The Root partition is on a 320M disk, With bin, doc, dict and X. > > The problem comes when I use mount_msdos to mount a 1G partition > of my 2.5Gb Quantum Bigfoot. OK, this is what probably killed you. You may have gotten a warning: root cluster is not a multiple of clustersize in length or something like that. You should have IMMEDIATELY dismounted your msdos partition and hope nothing broke. > After a few commands, I start getting errors: > bad file descriptor. > > Unmounting the disk does not clear it, and last night the dev files > were giving bad file descriptor errors resulting in a non bootable system. Yes, your root filesystem may have been damaged. You should be able to fsck the filesystem from the fixit system and get the partition fixed. This is a known bug and *may* have been fixed in 2.2. But for the time being, do NOT mount dos filesystems with 16k clusters, which is ones greater than about 500mb (?). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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