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From: Slater@cris.com (Rick Slater)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dos filesystem (and HD) trashed by FreeBSD?
Date: 25 Mar 1997 15:53:49 GMT
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Brian Somers (brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org) wrote:
 
: Unfortunately, DOS partitions greater than 1028Mb will make
: FreeBSD fall on its face.  It's something to do with the
: cluster sizes going from 8k to 16k.

Aha!  Thanks again for your help, Brian.  I should've waited longer
to see your response, since I just spent two hours restoring win 95
onto its original 2 gig partition.

At least I found out that I could successfully do a full restore
of windoze ... ;-)

Heck, I had so much fun last night that maybe I'll go back and start
all over tonight with 1 gig partitions.  I love to hear the whine of
the tape drive.

Again, thanks. -- Rick