Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:46:44 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        ghormann@indiana.edu
Cc:        dyson@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <199702270046.TAA01948@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970226172016.25608C-100000@wawasee.read.indiana.edu> from "Gregory James Hormann" at Feb 26, 97 05:26:19 pm

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> ______________________________________________________________________________
> 
> On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, John S. Dyson wrote:
> > 
> > The problem appears to be fixed in the 2.2 series of code.
> 
> Are you sure about that?  A few months ago I hosed my / partition by
> mounting a 1GB Dos drive and reading a file.
> 
> I've learned that if you ever see this error message:
>  
> /kernel mountmsdosdf(): Warning root directory is not a multiple of the
> clustersize in length
> 
> IMMEDIATELY, unmount your dos partitions or something is going to be lost.
> 
The problem might be two fold.  There was a problem that I fixed that
keeps from messing up both the dos and the rest of your filesystems.  With
such a warning, I would tend to umount it immediately also.  However, the
vast majority of problems appear to be gone now.

John



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199702270046.TAA01948>