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
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> ______________________________________________________________________________ > > 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
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