Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 12:53:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> Cc: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca>, Derek Law <derekl@earthlink.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i have a question Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960708124959.29630A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960708093033.15223C-100000@downlink.eng.umd.edu>
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On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > Just to make that a little clearer, it's fine to read the dos partition, > but the risky part comes in WRITING TO the dos partition. I've never > seen the least problem reading the data. Probably safest to do the mount > as a read only mount. On my 2.2-960501-SNAP system here, just listing some of the files on my DOS slice will cause all my FreeBSD partitions to become ruined well beyond my ability to repair. Maybe a bug in the -SNAP code I didn't hear about. Floppies, of course, mount finely. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk
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