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From: tls@rek.tjls.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: chmod'ing msdos fs and mount problems
Date: 22 Dec 1995 17:42:04 -0500
Organization: Never!
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In article <4acqam$2m8@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca>,
The YossMan <yossman@osiris.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>
>which leads me to me second question.  When i load /dos2, which is an IDE 
>1.03GIG drive (second physical drive), I get "mountmsdosfs(): root 
>directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length".  I don't 
>really know what this means or what to expect when using the filesystem, 
>so I have disabled loading it for now.  Any ideas?

I bet you made that filesystem with Lose 95.  It seems to do that quite a bit.

I haven't managed to damage such a filesystem by writing it with msdosfs, but
msdosfs in general seems to lose in various ways so I try not to write with
it anyway.

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Thor Lancelot Simon                                             tls@rek.tjls.com

   Where is the day that melted into one rich noise?          --Thomas Wolfe