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From: klaus@xmission.xmission.com (klaus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: MSDOS file system question
Date: 27 Mar 1997 10:20:43 -0700
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In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Brian Somers <brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org> wrote:

> The problem seems to be filesystems with 16k cluster sizes (>1028Mb).
> If you're encountering this problem, you'll see an error about cluster
> sizes when you mount the partition.  Umount it immediately or risk
> trashing the whole system.

Its a measly 40MB disk :) so I hope that's not the problem. I'll
scandisk it at make sure its ok and try again. I upgraded to 2.2 last
night so I'll see if the problem still persists.

-klaus

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