Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 19:36:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca> 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.OSF.3.91.960708193537.15831D-100000@downlink.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960708124959.29630A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
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On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > 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. Let me get this right: you mounted a dos partition, and when you did an ls on it, this damaged your FreeBSD partitions? I'd never heard of this before, I want to get it straight. > > Floppies, of course, mount finely. > > -- > Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! > tIM...HOEk > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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