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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!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!news.tacom.army.mil!news2.acs.oakland.edu!cloudbreak.rs.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Freebsd or Slackware Linux ? Date: 11 Feb 1997 02:26:33 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5dolcp$lfs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32fd0363.41392688@news> <01bc1795$c7e857b0$57c147cf@jbushakra> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35482 "John" <john.bushakra@wyatt.com> wrote: > 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. But that wasn't unexpected. We've been stating more than once that support for this is highly fragile. There are people who report that it works fine, while it totally barfs for others. If you only need your DOS files occasionally, but do want FreeBSD, there's always mtools in the ports/packages. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)