From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 20 12:20:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15348 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 12:20:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from citadel.stu.neva.ru (root@citadel.stu.neva.ru [194.85.96.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15191 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 12:18:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vitaly@radio.hop.stu.neva.ru) Received: from radio by citadel.stu.neva.ru with UUCP id <569715-223>; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 23:19:56 +0300 Received: by radio.hop.stu.neva.ru (dMail for DOS v2.04d, 11Oct96); Fri, 20 Mar 1998 23:17:41 +0300 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: Organization: SPSTU From: "Vitaly A. Repin" Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 23:17:41 +0300 (MSK) X-Mailer: dMail [Demos Mail for DOS v2.04d] Subject: 2 questions from the beginner Lines: 33 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, All! Two questions from the new user of FreeBSD (I've installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 RELEASE): 1) There are two partitions (in MS notation) on my HDD. The first is for Win95 (its type is FAT16) and the second is for FreeBSD. I want to read and write files from the first partition using FreeBSD. Ok, I've read man pages and add the following line in /etc/fstab: /dev/wd0s1 /dos_hdd msdos rw 0 2 When system starts it dispays the warning from mountmsdosfs(): "root directory isn't a multiple of the clustersize in length". Manual displays that writing on MS-DOS filesystem can produce the corruption of the data and that it is "shortcoming in the code which needs to be addressed". The question is: what should I do to imrove this situation? 2) If I try to mount the FDD (for example) when there is no floppy disk in the drive, FreeBSD displays error messages ("Error reading..., Input/Output error..."). The question is: how can I mount my "empty" FDD? (I want to automount my FDD when system starts, using fstab.) Thanks. Good-bye. WBR, Vitaly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message