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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!news.thenet.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!204.147.226.2!quack!quack.kfu.com!nsayer From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Subject: Re: Win95/FreeBSD files Message-ID: <nHFrMKQ@quack.kfu.com> Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000)) Organization: The Duck Pond public unix, +1 408 249 9630, log in as guest. References: <32AB19FD.567F@videotron.ca> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 08:06:17 UTC Lines: 42 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32708 Roger Savard <roger.savard@videotron.ca> writes: >Hi, >I have a Cyrix166+, 32MB and two drives : Win95 & FreeBSD 2.1.5. >Now my problem is when I mount the Dos partition with >either the "mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /msdos" or the > "mount -t msdosfs ... ... command >I get the following message on the console: >"mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple >of the clustersize in length. Danger, Will Robinson. >The outcome of that warning is, I can the mount the "dos" >partition, browse in it BUT whenever I mv files around >or copy any elsewhere, it messes up the unix filesystem >real good. (I ended up re-installing FreeBSD twice). Yeah. >What is the right way to mount the DOS filesystem and exchange >file in a good manner. The right way has to do with the creation of the DOS filesystem. Use format.exe from DOS 6.x to create the filesystem where win95 will live, then it will work ok, though it is still a good idea to not mount the msdosfs routinely, but instead to mount and dismount it on demand and sort of single-task it as much as possible. Either that or wait for the much anticipated vfatfs, which promises to be the best thing since sliced bread, I'm told. >Thanks for any advice. >Roger. -- Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NORCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | "Hubba hubba hubba, pig bastard." +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | URL: http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ | -- Scorpio (from Dirty Harry)