Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 01:22:05 +0300 (MSK) From: "Vitaly A. Repin" <vitaly@radio.hop.stu.neva.ru> To: kushn@dracula.info.kiev.ua, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: troubles with DOS partition (was: 2 questions from the beginner) Message-ID: <ABz6NsuuQU@radio.hop.stu.neva.ru> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980321231743.2249B-100000@kushnir.kiev.ua>
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> > 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.
> Sorry, Doug, I'm not sure it still holds.
> Vitaly, what release of FreeBSD you're running?
2.2.5 RELEASE.
> If I'm correct (which not necessarilly so) this message tells you that
> you've got large DOS partition (with clusters >16k). I used to see it under 2.1 and 2.2.2, but
> here's from man mount_msdos under -current:
SysInfo from NU7.0 displays that my DOS partition's cluster is 8k.
"FreeBSD 2.1 and earlier versions could not handle cluster sizes larger
than 16K. Just mounting an MS-DOS file system could cause corruption to
any mounted file system. Cluster sizes larger than 16K are unavoidable
for file system sizes larger than 1G, and also occur when filesystems
larger than 1G are shrunk to smaller than 1G using FIPS."
All capacity of my hdd is 850M. :(. But I've used the Partition Magic
for DOS partition.
> And under -current mount_msdos doesn't seem to even have this message
^^^^^^^^
What does it mean? if it means "the current version of mount_msdos
doesn't display this message", that you aren't right. But you
write "-current" and I haven't understood you.
> anymore (in code, I mean). So if your release is new enough, you probably
> have nothing to worry about.
Unfortunately, it displays me the warning message.
> Regards, Vladimir
Thank you for your time!
Good-bye.
WBR, Vitaly.
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