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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 03:13:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>
To: Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>, roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de,
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Subject: Re: Making a DOS Partition writeable
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On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Robert Eckardt wrote:

> 
> Please, anyone correct me, but mounting a DOS-FS could -- under certain
> circumstances -- corrupt the BSD-FS !?!?
> 

Shortly after I installed FreeBSD, I was running two finds on different
virtual consoles, with /msdos mounted, and my machine crashed hard.  When
it came back up, my entire FreeBSD installation was hosed.  I can't say it
was definitely due to msdosfs, but I suspect it.