Date: 7 Apr 1996 10:02:59 -0700 From: pete@pelican.com (Pete Carah) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Msdos FS Message-ID: <4k8sg3$qoq@pelican.altadena.net> References: <970.828568580@palmer.demon.co.uk> <316248B7.41C67EA6@masternet.it>
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In article >Gary Palmer wrote: >> Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote in message ID >> <3161AA95.41C67EA6@masternet.it>: >> > #mount /mnt/work (or /mnt/win95) >> > mountmsdosfs(): root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length >> > # >> IT'S NOT AN ERROR!!! >> It's a warning (which doesn't say it's a warning. Sigh). What it does >> say though is that WRITING to the DOS parition could have VERY >> dangerous effects (including trashing data on most of the drive). >> I'd advise you to mount it READ ONLY... Well, considering that some of the medium-density floppy formats had this property, and that DOS doesn't use the cluster write subroutines for writes to the root directory (so it doesn't care...), we shut ourselves out of lots of probable disk configurations with this restriction... -- Pete
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