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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dos Partition Mount
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 13:21:41 -0700
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Eitan Michaelson wrote:
> When I mounting the DOS partitons under BSD (mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1
> /mnt)
> I'm getting some king of an error (multi somthing in the root directory
> ..kernal error)

Yes, this problem is why it's the default behavior to mount DOS
filesystems read-only if you specify mount points for them in the
FreeBSD partition editor (during installation).  Some DOS filesystems
tickle a *bad* bug in FreeBSD msdosfs code, and that is why the msdosfs
code is currently being re-written from scratch.  In the meantime, don't
mount DOS filesystems read/write.  Thanks...

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project