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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!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!con-nntp-gw!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-2.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-fw-6.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.voicenet.com!news2.noc.netcom.net!noc.netcom.net!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!prds-grn.demon.co. uk!prds-grn!t.d.g.sandford From: t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk (Thomas D.G. Sandford) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: mountmsdosfs() question Date: 30 Jun 1996 15:34:58 GMT Organization: Paradise Green Technical Services Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4r66r2$1uu@prds-grn.demon.co.uk> References: <4qpkb1$le6@pier2.bayarea.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: prds-grn.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] David McNab (mcnab@bayarea.net) 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? Be afraid - be very afraid, and take the partition out of your /etc/fstab *AT ONCE* . This message indicates a problem which *can* result in the total trashing of your FFS partitions when a find operation is done on your DOS partition (as occurs in /etc/weekly). This can occur *EVEN IF THE MSDOS PARTITION IS MOUNTED READ ONLY*. I believe the error message mainly occurs with a disk that has been partitioned in a "non-standard" way (e.g. fips), but it can occur even with a brand new disk partitioned with fdisk. The newer msdos disk code may fix this problem (I don't know - I'm still running 2.1R as well). -- Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk Paradise Green Technical Services: S'ware/Hw design and Theatre Tech. Services