Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 00:56:10 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: jdn@qiv.com (Jay Nelson) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current status of msdosfs (yet again) Message-ID: <199705022256.AAA15099@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970502162224.9276A-100000@tok.qiv.com> from Jay Nelson at "May 2, 97 04:50:47 pm"
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Jay Nelson wrote: > I have 2.2.1-RELEASE running at work and I'm being forced to soil myself > with Windows. I mounted dos from X, didn't see the messages and tried > moving some files. Everything worked fine. Is it safe to use msdosfs or > was I just lucky? The problem where the msdosfs corrupted other filesystems should not occur in any 2.2.x-RELEASE. > This is on a 1.6Gb IDE repartitioned with fips. Is there any way I can > control the cluster size if I reformat or will dos fdisk/format take care > of the problem? If you used FIPS, it is a good idea to reformat. Allow DOS format to choose the cluster size. (Having the default cluster size is always good: that way, if DOS/Win itself becomes confused, it won't chop your filesystem into small little pieces. :-) The 2.2 msdosfs is no longer "cluster size sensitive", though; so a reformat is not absolutely required. The msdosfs is reasonably safe for copying files DOS<->BSD. But stay away from anything much more than that (eg. moving directories can cause problems). -- Robert Nordier
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