From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 21 12:58:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28538 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 12:58:10 -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 MAA28527 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 12:58:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vitaly@radio.hop.stu.neva.ru) Received: from radio by citadel.stu.neva.ru with UUCP id <569718-223>; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 23:59:33 +0300 Received: by radio.hop.stu.neva.ru (dMail for DOS v2.04d, 11Oct96); Sat, 21 Mar 1998 23:42:21 +0300 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: Organization: SPSTU From: "Vitaly A. Repin" Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 23:42:21 +0300 (MSK) X-Mailer: dMail [Demos Mail for DOS v2.04d] Subject: Re:Re: troubles with DOS partition (was: 2 questions from the beginner) Lines: 55 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 To: Studded@dal.net >> 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? > First thing you should do is take out that fstab entry and umount that > parition. Ok. I've done it. Thank you very much for warning about the chance of data loss on my FreeBSD partition. > I am guessing that you used fips to shrink your dos partition. I used Partition Magic to do this. But, it seems to me, there are not many differences between these two programs. > In any case, the > solution is to back up all your data, use dos fdisk to wipe out both > partitions and repartition your drive, then reinstall everything. Yes, I > know this is bad news, but if you want to access your dos partition > regularly from freebsd this is the safest way. Oh. It's a VERY bad news for me. Are you sure, it's "the first and the last" solution of my problem? > Good luck, > Doug > -- > *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** > *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest > *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. > *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) Thank you for your suggestions. Good-bye. WBR, Vitaly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message