From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 27 19:50:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA03279 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 19:50:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms1.hinet.net (donny@ms1.hinet.net [168.95.4.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA03272 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 19:50:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from donny@localhost) by ms1.hinet.net (8.8.3/8.8.3) id LAA05269; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:47:33 +0800 (CST) Message-Id: <199611280347.LAA05269@ms1.hinet.net> From: donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) To: Gianmarco Giovannelli Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mountmsdosfs() warning? Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:22:43 -0500 Lines: 17 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -=*> Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: >> The DOS partition was only 250mb in the same node /dev/sd0s5, >> there was no problem at all to mounting it in /dos. I increased >> it to 280mb couple days ago, my BSD began to panic about this. > Have you used fips ? Probably you have passed the 256mb limit in which the > clusters change dimension. > Beware of the msdosfs in Bsd, now it is quite buggy. No, I use Partition Magic to in/decrease the DOS partitions. > The problem is Freebsd complains about the fact the partition size is not a > multiple of clusters size, perhaps trying to change the size to a little > amount can solve the problem. Ok, I can try this. Hope it helps. thanks anyway. // Donny