Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 09:47:49 +0000 From: Pierre-Andre van Leeuwen <pvl@nanoteq.com> To: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Followup: (Re: Current status of msdosfs (yet again)) Message-ID: <199705080947.JAA09794@pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 May 1997 19:14:42 EST." <Pine.NEB.3.95.970507185634.825A-100000@acp.qiv.com>
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> It appears the msdos filesystem is working just fine. I have a Dell > Dimension with a cdrom hanging off a vibra 16 sound card, one ide 1.6Gb > IDE disk, P133 upgraded to 2.2.1-RELEASE off the WC CDROM. > > 1. I mounted the dos slice, > 2. tared the whole file system to /usr/tmp, > 3. rebooted in virus mode, > 4. deleted the dos slice, > 5. recreated it, > 6. formated it, > 7. sys'd the new slice, > 8. renamed io.sys and msdos.sys (to maintain their positions on the disk) > 9. then rebooted back to the real world, > 10. remounted the dos slice (no errors), > 11. untarred the original tarball, > 12. deleted io.sys, msdos.sys and mv'd the renamed counterparts to *.sys > > The end result is a dos/windows system that works as well as it did > before, absolutely no errors or corruption and a convenient place to stick > seldom used tarballs. I've created and deleted complete trees as well as > files with no problems. If there are any problems, I haven't seen them. > > My compliments to those of you who made this work.. Thanks. > > -- Jay > Same experience/compliments from me :) pierre -- Pierre-Andre van Leeuwen Electronic Engineer Powered By FreeBSD ******************************** * Nanoteq (Pty) Ltd. * * Specialists in data security * * E-mail : pvl@nanoteq.com * * Ph : +27 (0)12 665-1338 * * http://www.nanoteq.co.za * ********************************
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