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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!legba.synergy.net!linnell From: linnell@ncfcomm.com (Linnell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: mountmsdosfs() question Date: 1 Jul 1996 07:45:42 GMT Organization: time travelers for creative anachronism Lines: 27 Message-ID: <slrn4tf0k9.6n.linnell@ppp07.ncfcomm.com> References: <4qpkb1$le6@pier2.bayarea.net> <31D0A8BF.52F72816@lambert.org> <4qsitn$95@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: linnell@ncfcomm.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp07.ncfcomm.com X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.6.1) In article <4qsitn$95@anorak.coverform.lan>, Brian Somers wrote: >Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: >: 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. > >It may be caused by adjusting partitions with one of these >"partitionmagic" type things. I believe that none of them can >adjust the cluster size - I'd be impressed if they could. FIPS doesn't, but Partition Magic (a commercial product) actually can. In any case, given that FIPS is distributed with the FreeBSD CD-ROM, and given that a number of people presumably use it with FreeBSD, perhaps it would be appropriate to not give that error message.