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From: scott@statsci.com (Scott Blachowicz)
Subject: Re: Mounting MSDOS partitions
In-Reply-To: Karl Stenerud's message of Fri, 19 Jan 1996 03:20:41 -0800
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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 20:14:26 GMT
>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Stenerud <mock@res.com>
Karl> Which device is my msdos partition?
Karl> I used fips to partition my drive and installed FreeBSD on the
Karl> second partition.
Karl> When I do disklabel wd0, it tells me my drive is 150 megs (the size
Karl> of the partition I made), but not 540 megs, my drive's capacity.
Karl> It also won't show my MSDOS partition anywhere.
Karl> How do I mount my msdos partition?
Using the new slice notation, it would probably be something like
/dev/wd0s1c. But, (as a user whose trashed his file systems, not as a
file system author) I wouldn't recommend mounting any DOS slices if you've
used FIPS on them. The current FreeBSD msdosfs code has some problems and
some of those problems are tickled when you mount a FIPS-ized DOS slice.
In my case, it resulted in corruption of my BSD partitions. There've been
some discussions about this on the questions@freebsd.org mailing list, but
it isn't fixed yet.
Be careful...
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