Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:52:07 +0200 From: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: brianc@pobox.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DOS root directory? Message-ID: <199608260752.JAA23556@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> In-Reply-To: msmith's message of Sat, 24 Aug 1996 13:46:39 %2B0930. <199608240416.NAA24844@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> 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 ----------------------------------------------------
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