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Date:      Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:44:11 +1000
From:      Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
To:        Christer Solskogen <solskogen@carebears.mine.nu>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mounting msdosfs
Message-ID:  <20040418034411.GB5419@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
In-Reply-To: <1082192214.23944.14.camel@funshine.carebears.net>
References:  <1082192214.23944.14.camel@funshine.carebears.net>

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On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:56:55AM +0200, Christer Solskogen wrote:

> I got two msdosfs(fat32) partitions on my machine.
> I can mount them without any problems, but fsck wont work.
> 
> # fsck_msdosfs /dev/ad0s5
> ** /dev/ad0s5
> backup doesn't compare to primary bootblock
> 
> I did a clean FreeBSD 5.2.1 install(not upgraded or anything)
> 
> Since mounting them, and using them goes well I guess almost everything
> is alright. Is there a way of spesifying to not fsck them at boot, but
> mount them?
> 
> Hm, i think i remember netbsd had a simular problem, but it got fixed.
> But I`m not sure if it would work on FreeBSD.
> http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=11134

That fix looks reasonable. I'll see if I can get around to merging
this and any other useful fixes from NetBSD later tonight.


Tim



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