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From: Malloc@cris.com (Matthew Bancroft)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DOS FAT FS support in FreeBSD fixed ?
Date: 1 Jan 1997 01:11:03 GMT
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Daniel Ts'o (dantso@cris.com) wrote:
: 	Not too long ago I recall that the FAT support under FreeBSD was 
: considered broken, particularly for writing in a FAT filesystem. Has this been 
: fixed ? What is the state of FAT support under FreeBSD ?
: 	Thanks.
: 
: 		Cheers,
: 		Dan Ts'o
: 		dantso@cris.com

I guess FAT support is ok, as long as you dont attempt to write back to
the dos partition...

I was using FreeBSD 2.1.5 with a 3gig drive
1gig linux
1gig BSDI
1gig Windoze 95

After I mounted and wrote to the dos partition under FreeBSD 2.1.5, I
recieved messages that /usr was an nonexistent. After more examination,
i found that i had corrupted the freebsd and dos partitions.  To fix the
problem, i reformatted  the dos and freebsd partitions and then restored
the FAT partition from backup.

Matt Bancroft
malloc@cris.com
bancroft@akamail.com