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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: kernel panic -- Bug?
Date: 14 Oct 1995 20:41:44 +0100
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Keywords: files on dos partition

Vijay Konkimalla <konki@cerc.wvu.edu> wrote:

>I am using FreeBSD 2.0 release and ran into this problem. 
>
>1. I mounted the dos partition
>2. logged on as root
>3. tried to move a file from dos partition to the unix
>
>Bang goes the system rebooting again.

Moving files around in msdosfs was broken until very recently.
(Perhaps it still is, who knows?)
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)