Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 13:46:39 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: brianc@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DOS root directory? Message-ID: <199608240416.NAA24844@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199608240139.VAA00296@ottawa.net> from "Brian Campbell" at Aug 23, 96 09:39:35 pm
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Brian Campbell stands accused of saying: > > When I mount my DOS C drive (formatted by W95's format for W95) I get: > mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple of > the clustersize in length > > Is this a serious or important warning, or just something the author > didn't think would happen and wanted to be informed of? It indicates that your DOS partition was shrunk at some sage, probably by FIPS or a similar tool. The FreeBSD MSDOSFS appears particularly unreliable with such filesystems; I would advise extreme caution. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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