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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!usc!news.isi.edu!usenet From: Cengiz Alaettinoglu <cengiz@isi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: can fat32 partition be mounted? Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:51:22 -0700 Organization: USC Information Sciences Institute Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3358251A.2781E494@isi.edu> References: <33554DFA.41C67EA6@isi.edu> <5j5abm$8j1@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cat-a.isi.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; U; SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39331 Brian Somers wrote: > > In article <33554DFA.41C67EA6@isi.edu> > The can, but the long filenames aren't understood. Also, beware of > the bug ! If you see something that says your cluster size is wrong, > unmount it immediately or you'll suffer. > > You'd be better to use mtools. I believe they support long filenames. Thanks. Are you referring to the "root directory is not a multiple of the cluster size in lehgth" warning I was getting? I unmounted the partition and deleted it from fstab. As far as I can see no damage is done yet. I have FreeBSD 2.2.1. I will check mtools. Thanks. Cengiz