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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie comments/questions Date: 10 Mar 1996 11:09:56 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4huda4$1ca@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4hgcu4$7ek@news.duke.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 gallatin@kahlo.isds.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin) writes: > o Mounting DOS partitions. I'm very unfamiliar with the way FreeBSD labels > disks. My single, 2G IDE disk is set up as follows (DOS partition is > WIN95, fips-shrunk from 2G to 1G): > The data for partition 0 is: > sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) > start 63, size 2060289 (1006 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > end: cyl 510/ sector 63/ head 63 > I assume that I should mount /dev/wd0s1. Is this the correct Yup. > partition to feed to mount_msdos & is it safe to use for read & write > operations? I've read some things (searching the mailing lists) that > make me a little nervous about doing this. FIPS-shrunk partitions are known to cause severe troubles with the FreeBSD msdosfs stuff. (FIPS doesn't change the cluster size, and msdosfs apparently becomes very confused.) I'd suggest you backing up the DOS partition, and reformat it. -- 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. ;-)