Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:33:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@masternet.it> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: msdosfs broken... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961013233222.261U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0b35.32.19961013175551.0071b4f4@masternet.it>
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On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > Is it possible that msdosfs is unable to work properly when there is a > partition greater than 1gb (i.e. with clusters of 32kb ?). The warning > complaing about the root is not a multiple of cluster size in length is not > enough , even mounting in ro is a possible danger... Yes, msdosfs is "broken" in this regard. When you get that message, unmount the filesystem IMMEDIATELY and never mount it again, it IS destructive! > I did an installation of a new box with 2.2 -current and I didn't notice > when it booted the warning... at the first locate.updatedb --> a lot of the > disk trashed ! > > Several months ago someone was asking beta tester for trying to correct > this, is there any news about it ? I haven't heard on msdosfs updates in quite a while. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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