From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 5 00:26:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA15409 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 00:26:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA15399 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 00:26:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA21656; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 00:25:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 00:25:40 -0800 (PST) From: Stranger Bone To: Kris Kennaway cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting win995 partitions In-Reply-To: <199702050701.RAA22708@topdown.bns.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Okay, I've just been reading through the archives to try and answer my > questions, and have got somewhere but not 100% certain on some things. > > Basically, I want to mount my win95 partitions under freebsd (2.1.0-Rel). > When I first installed bsd, I made the mistake of trying to mount the 95 > partition read/write, and got the "root directory is not a multiple of > the clustersize in length" msg and trashed the entire partition :-(. > Henceforth I've been tentative at mounting at eagain, even read-only, > since I also had an experience with a port of unarj (possibly not a 2.1.0 > port, which might have been the problem) trashing large parts of my /usr > partition when I tried to unarj a file I copied from my read-only msdos drive. > Thankfully I was able to recover from this without too much hassle, but > I'd rather not go through it again. Was this likely to be related to a > buggy mount, unarj, or something else? mount_msdos is buggy enough to hose a UFS partition, read-only or not. > Incidentally, my win95/freebsd drive was partitioned with FIPS, which may > have been the cause of the problem. It's also a fairly large partition, > 1GB+, I think. From what I gather, both of these things are relevant. I believe they are; I gather that it's something to do with FIPS not resetting the cluster size properly. I wish this bug were better documented, it's a mean one and there's I think there's only a vague warning in the man page. > Now, I gather that it's possible to reorganize things to allow me to > mount it writable under certain configurations. Is this the case, and if > so, exactly how should I go about this? I've just bought another 2.5GB I would love to know the answer to that. > IDE HD which I'm planning on also splitting win95/bsd. Before I do this, how > should I set it up so as to maximise performance and preferably allow me > to mount the win95 partition(s) read/write. I'm thiniing of keeping 300MB > or so for bsd and keeping the rest for win95. Depends what you're doing with FreeBSD. In general I think it's good to have /usr on one hard drive and swap on another, so you can access both concurrently. But it really depends what you're using the machine for. > Your replies would be most appreciated! I hope this helps. > || ,-./\ Kris Kennaway || "Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. || > ||/ \ || Dead. Dead. Dead. How can you apologize to them?" || > ||\_,-*_/ kkenn@ || "I..can't" "Then how can I forgive?" || > || v bns.com.au || - G'Kar and Vir, "Comes the Inquisitor", Babylon 5 || > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."