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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mountmsdosfs() question
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 20:04:31 -0700
Organization: Me
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David McNab wrote:
]
] When I mount one of my MS-DOS partitions on my
] FreeBSD 2.1 machine, I get the message:
]
] Jun 25 13:57:16 mcnab /kernel: mountmsdosfs(): root directory is not a
multipleof the clustersize in length
]
] Is this something I should worry about? Is it
] something I can fix?
It means the cluster size is larger than what DOS would have
put there for a partition of that size.
Typically, this means that writes from BSD to the msdosfs will
courrept the partition following the msdosfs. Do *not* mount
the thing writeable.
Under some circumstances, the partition can be written anyway
(specifically, if you are running programs from there, and
the files they are run from are used as swap store).
In general, you should not mount this, if you can avoid it,
until Robert Nordier releases his updated msdosfs code.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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or previous employers.