Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 23:40:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Glynn Stanton <glynn@nol.co.uk> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Glynn Stanton <glynn@nol.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.970305233235.25077C-100000@obewan.n-e-t.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970305130120.26669E-100000@localhost>
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On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Glynn Stanton wrote: > > > > The Root partition is on a 320M disk, With bin, doc, dict and X. > > > > The problem comes when I use mount_msdos to mount a 1G partition > > of my 2.5Gb Quantum Bigfoot. > > OK, this is what probably killed you. You may have gotten a > warning: root cluster is not a multiple of clustersize in length > > or something like that. You should have IMMEDIATELY dismounted your msdos > partition and hope nothing broke. Ok, yes, I did.. as it said "Warning".. Im used to that meaning something so be aware of, but not fatal. > Yes, your root filesystem may have been damaged. You should be able to > fsck the filesystem from the fixit system and get the partition fixed. As it was a new install, I went for the reformat option.. then when it happened again, I was more concerned with why it happened, as I was really beginning to see performance benefits of FreeBSD over Linux. > This is a known bug and *may* have been fixed in 2.2. But for the time > being, do NOT mount dos filesystems with 16k clusters, which is ones > greater than about 500mb (?). Thank you *very* much for the help and info. Much appreciated. Glynn Stanton. > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major >
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