From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 5 17:52:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26824 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 17:52:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA26764 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 17:52:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (mail.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.21]) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA02540; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 19:52:22 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 19:52:21 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Mike Mann cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RE : Copying DOS files to UNIX In-Reply-To: <199803051739.RAA24328@avalon.netcom.net.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Mike Mann wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998 15:54:19 -0600 (CST), "Matthew D. Fuller" > wrote: > > >> "mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple of the > >> clustersize in length" > > >Wheee.... > >That's a Windows95 partition, isn't it? > > Yes. I'll have to experiment with changing the size of the root > directory and see if that makes a difference. That won't make a difference. It has to do with the clustersize in Windows95's filesystem; FAT32, I believe it is? Andway, FreeBSD's msdosfs can't handle it correctly. Was this fixed in 3.0-CURRENT? Don't remember... > >> I presume that mounting read only is safe. > >No, it's not. > > Oh dear :-( Thanks for the warning. Look into mtools, in the ports collection. IIRC, mtools could handlt FAT32 partitons OK. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message