From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 18 21:19:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA07426 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 21:19:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA07419 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 21:19:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id NAA03283; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 13:49:26 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970919134926.56921@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 13:49:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Doug Lo Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Warning message, what does it mean? References: <3421E6FC.3C97F979@ms11.hinet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <3421E6FC.3C97F979@ms11.hinet.net>; from Doug Lo on Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 10:44:12AM +0800 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 10:44:12AM +0800, Doug Lo wrote: > Hi, > > When I boot FreeBSD, I got a warning message as below: > > mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple of the > clustersize in length. > > Would anyone tell me what it means? Well, the immediate meaning is obvious. > Should I notice it? Bearing in mind the flaky condition of msdosfs, I'd be very careful. I don't know if things have improved, since I don't use Microsoft, but there were times when anomalies in the file system structure could cause msdosfs to overwrite not only its own partition, but also neighbouring ones. If you must mount the file system, do it read-only, at least until somebody more knowledgeable than I tells you that the coast is clear. Greg