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From: Paul Flores <pflores@phoenix.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Freebsd or Slackware Linux ?
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 14:57:12 -0600
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On 10 Feb 1997, 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.
Wierd. I regularly play Xquake on FreeBSD machine using the quake .PAK files
on my DOS partition. Could this be a hardware thing? I have never ever EVER
had my drives trashed using the mount_msdos feature. (and I still use 2.0.5
on a regular basis.)
Paul Flores
"Show me an Ethernet collision and I'll show you a network that
could do with one user fewer" --BOFH