From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 26 01:36:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA27467 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 01:36:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA27461 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 01:36:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) pid 13647 id KAA13647; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 10:20:34 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nietzsche.bowtie.nl (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA23556; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:52:08 +0200 Message-Id: <199608260752.JAA23556@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: Michael Smith cc: brianc@pobox.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DOS root directory? In-reply-to: msmith's message of Sat, 24 Aug 1996 13:46:39 +0930. <199608240416.NAA24844@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:52:07 +0200 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Brian Campbell stands accused of saying: > > > > When I mount my DOS C drive (formatted by W95's format for W95) I get: > > mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple of > > the clustersize in length > > > > Is this a serious or important warning, or just something the author > > didn't think would happen and wanted to be informed of? > > It indicates that your DOS partition was shrunk at some sage, probably > by FIPS or a similar tool. The FreeBSD MSDOSFS appears particularly > unreliable with such filesystems; I would advise extreme caution. > I can second this, I had to reinstall my complete system after a crash which left my bootdisk totally unusable. Marc. ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ----------------------------------------------------