Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 10:37:43 -0700 From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It seems FreeBSD is crashable... ;-) Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980628103743.031f1c54@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980628092220.fewtch@serv.net>
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At 09:22 AM 6/28/98 -0700, Tim Gerchmez wrote: >some reason, I can't mount the D: drive on the extended partition on the >first drive (wd0s3) - perhaps someone who knows more than I do can explain >why. Drives in extended partitions start numbering with slice 5, so it's wd0s5 for you. >I have it >automatically set up to mount now in .login so I can access it anytime I >please. Or you could use /etc/fstab, which is where the rest of the filesystem are located. >I'm aware of the risks of writing to the DOS filesystem from >FreeBSD, BTW... and plan to use it mostly for copying FROM the DOS drive TO >a directory on my FreeBSD drive. You could also use mtools (package or port), which preserves long filenames and doesn't require a partition to be constantly mounted. >Now, for the crashable part - I have an OS/2 boot manager partition on >/dev/wd0s1. Just for kicks, I tried: > >mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /tmp > >Guess what... FreeBSD instantly locked up. No keyboard input, no daemons >running, nothing... followed by an instant, unclean reboot a few seconds >later (all slices dirty on reboot). So it turns out it is possible to >completely crash FreeBSD :-) (someone's gonna tell me I should have known >that already). That's what you get for mounting a non-dos partition with mount_msdos... --Ludwig Pummer ludwigp@bigfoot.com ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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