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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.pbi.net!news5.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mounting DOS drives Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 14:10:56 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 24 Message-ID: <32C1A670.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <59hmci$qj5@news.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: phiber0@xs4all.nl Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33137 phiber0@xs4all.nl wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 2.1.5 system on my 2nd harddrive and DOS on my 1st harddrive. > Of course it'd be nice if I could mount my DOS harddrive from BSD, so I > created a mountpoint (/dos) and added an entry in /etc/fstab like this: > > /dev/wd0s1 /dos msdos ro,noauto 0 0 > > Now, when I want to mount my DOS drive (``mount /dos'') I get this disturbing > message: > > ``Dec 20 21:44:42 mappy /kernel: mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is > not a multiple of the clustersize in length'' Yes, you have a DOS partition that FreeBSD's current (buggy) msdosfs code does not like, probably for its size (>511 MB partitions seem to cause it special headaches). You should probably use the mtools package (which you can configure to understand that "C:" means /dev/wd0s1) until Robert Nordier finishes his msdosfs rewrite. It will fix these problems while also providing Win95 long filename support. ETA is unknown, probably early in '97 sometime. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project