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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DOS<->BSD problem Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 19:08:44 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 38 Message-ID: <32385FBC.7E2D@www.play-hookey.com> References: <518mko$9j7@pf1.phil.uni-sb.de> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Andreas Paul wrote: > > Hello! > > I have just installed RELEASE-2.1.5 onto my system (IBM DORS 32180 SCSI-HDD, > first Gig BSD, 2nd Gig DOS). > Now I have some serious problems with mounting the DOS partition (Win95): > I was able to mount it (rw), but during the boot-up, the warning > "Mountmsdofs() : root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in lenght" > occured. > > I didn't care and tried to write to the dos FS, which lead to destruction of > my BSD partition(!). The DOS partition was slightly damaged. > > I did NOT use fips. > > What is the reason for this bug? > What do I have to do? > Can someone help me? > > Thank you in advance! > This is rooted not in DOS, nor strictly in FreeBSD, but rather in the way M$ screwed with the directory structure and disk layout to permit those long filenames in Win95, plus some other diddling. Because of Win95, that slice is no longer truly a DOS partition in all respects. I understand the FreeBSD team are working on the necessary adjustments to allow FreeBSD to handle it correctly. Until then, I suggest you forget writing to it from FreeBSD. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |