Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:55:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com> Cc: Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Making a DOS Partition writeable Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961021225316.4986K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.961021031112.16608A-100000@echonyc.com>
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On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Snob Art Genre wrote: > > Please, anyone correct me, but mounting a DOS-FS could -- under certain > > circumstances -- corrupt the BSD-FS !?!? > > > > Shortly after I installed FreeBSD, I was running two finds on different > virtual consoles, with /msdos mounted, and my machine crashed hard. When > it came back up, my entire FreeBSD installation was hosed. I can't say it > was definitely due to msdosfs, but I suspect it. The primary problem comes when you FIPS a partition and cause the cluster size to change. FreeBSD assumes a perfect world while FIPS cheats -- it SHOULD rewrite all those sectors back down to the smaller clustersize but that takes a while (I had a program that actually did it right!) esp. on big disks. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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