Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 10:26:49 -0500 (EST) From: Jon-Erik Lido <jlido@helium.goof.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: kern/2507: MSDOSFS directory bug Message-ID: <199701161526.KAA01813@helium.goof.com> Resent-Message-ID: <199701161530.HAA26071@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 2507 >Category: kern >Synopsis: Renaming DOS directories with "mv" causes corruption. >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 16 07:30:01 PST 1997 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jon-Erik Lido >Organization: >Release: FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386 >Environment: FreeBSD 2.1.5, Windows 95 >Description: Renaming MSDOS directories mounted under FreeBSD with the "mv" seems to slightly corrupt the filesystem. I believe it is creating a circular directory structure somehow with the a directory of the new name inside the old directory. >How-To-Repeat: Mount a DOS filesystem read/write. Create a directory. Rename the directory with "mv" as you would with a unix directory. Voila! Busted directory. >Fix: Under DOS scandisk is able to correct the damage, but I don't know what the source of the problem is. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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