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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:16813 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5522 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!tencats.tiac.net!rmk From: rmk@tiac.net (Rick Kelly) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Installation of a DOS application overwrites FreeBSD partition. Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Date: 27 Feb 1995 03:19:30 GMT Organization: The Internet Access Company Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3irgc2$28r@sundog.tiac.net> References: <3ir0uj$74f@csgrad.cs.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tencats.tiac.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Chengyin Chris Ye (chrisye@csgrad.cs.vt.edu) wrote: : In my 486DX2-66, I partitioned 1 Gig disk into two parts. The first : 250M is Dos partition, and the rest is FreeBSD. : Today, when I was installing a Window software, I didn't pay too : much attention about how much disk space left in the Dos partition, and : the software package saw there are lots disk space "free". So it happily : exceed the dos partition limit and overwrite part of FreeBSD partition. : The Dos/Win application took 253M in total, so it overwrites : 3M disk space at the beginning of FreeBSD partition. I can't help this person, but I just want to say that this is one more piece of data that proves to me that Microsoft is a seller of pure garbage. : For future note: how to prevent this kind of things happen again? Don't ever, ever use a Microsoft product again. Works for me. -- Rick Kelly rmk@tencats.tiac.net rmk@rmkhome.com rmk@progress.com