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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Freebsd or Slackware Linux ? Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 19:47:27 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 16 Message-ID: <32FFC19F.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <32fd0363.41392688@news> <01bc1795$c7e857b0$57c147cf@jbushakra> 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) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35462 John wrote: > > FWIW: > FreeBSD burned down my house once too many times. This time all I did was > mount_msdos. Didn't even TRY to access any files. The next thing I knew, > the entire file system was trashed. And for the person who recently > mentioned in this newsgroup that they had never seen a problem that fsck > couldn't fix -- here is one for sure. > > My 0.02: if you expect to ever need to transfer files from a DOS partition > to BSD, forget it, stay with Linux. That's what I'm doing. > Unfortunately, that was true (and still true for 2.1.7.) 2.2 is fixed. John