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From: heller@socko.cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD filesystem for DOS partitions
Date: 16 Apr 1997 19:36:54 GMT
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Brian Somers (brian@shift.utell.net) wrote:
: In article <5j2dst$o71@news.vsnl.net.in>,
: 	jason@somehost.somedomain.com (jason) writes:
: > Is there any BSD filesystems that let you use the current DOS partition like 
: > UMSDOS filesystem under Linux?

: Yes, but there's a size problem.  Don't try to mount partitions more
: than 504Mb big (you can use bigger ones sometimes, but if you can't,
: it'll trash your FreeBSD partitions as well as the DOS one).


 Is this true?  You mean I shouldn't mount my 1.2gig does partition?