From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 10:02:58 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA03700 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 10:02:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [198.145.127.110]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA03695 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 10:02:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from block.statsci.com by main.statsci.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tNkeL-000r3sC; Thu, 7 Dec 95 10:02 PST Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by block.statsci.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA04168; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 10:02:28 -0800 Message-Id: <199512071802.KAA04168@block.statsci.com> To: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at cc: alexandr@louie.udel.edu (Jerry Alexandratos), questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FS Help In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Dec 1995 20:13:50 +0700." <9512061910.AA11954@atuhc16.atusks01.aut.alcatel.at> Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 10:02:27 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at wrote: > > Time for specifics. At one point the DOS partition was read-write > > instead of read-only. Likewise, it was rw by a group of people (there > > was some common work that needed to be done). Could any of this be > > giving me the problems of corrupting my FS? > > Yes. Read only seems to be safe enough (seems not to damage other FS's) No - read-only is not safe enough. Or, at least, it wasn't for me. I kept getting corrupt BSD file systems until I stopped mounting my DOS partitions altogether. It seems to be related to my having used FIPS to shrink the DOS partition down and the FBSD msdosfs not being able to handle what FIPS did to the FAT table, which I _think_ is a problem in msdosfs, not in FIPS. DOS, Windows, NT and Linux all appear to handle the DOS partitions just fine. I almost decided to return the FreeBSD 2.0.5 CD when I ran across that, but I decided I could live without access to my DOS slices from FreeBSD and I liked FreeBSD enough to keep it. Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc. 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org