Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 14:09:25 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: "Drew Derbyshire" <ahd@kew.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Edward F. Keith" <ed@efkport.kew.com>, dev@epsilon.com Subject: Re: Space Monkeys and disk partitions Message-ID: <m0vHzs6-0003xaC@main.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:47:46 -0500." <3273059a.kendra@pandora.kew.com> References: <3273059a.kendra@pandora.kew.com>
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"Drew Derbyshire" <ahd@kew.com> wrote:
> I'll reinstall tomorrow after I zero the disks (the second disk still
> has problems caused by the virus), but at least the system will hang
> around for a while this time.
Also, if you were mounting your DOS partitions from FreeBSD, you might
want to stop that. The msdosfs has some known problems (one of which
torches the FreeBSD partitions, even if the msdosfs is mounted read-only
- it seems to get get triggered if you use FIPS to shrink a partition
and/or it is a 63 sectors/track disk).
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div)
1700 Westlake Ave N #500
scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109
Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
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