From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 22 11:05:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA15588 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 11:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mpeks.tomsk.su (mpeks.tomsk.su [193.124.185.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA15568 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 11:05:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mpeks.tomsk.su (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id CAA27418; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 02:04:41 +0800 Received: (from vas@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.3) id BAA12267; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 01:26:54 +0800 (TSD) From: "Victor A. Sudakov" Message-Id: <199706221726.BAA12267@vas.tomsk.su> Subject: Re: root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length To: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 01:26:54 +0800 (TSD) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: vas@vas.tsu.tomsk.su In-Reply-To: <199706220345.EAA07158@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> from "Brian Somers" at "Jun 22, 97 04:45:12 am" Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian Somers wrote: > > I got the sinister message: > > > > mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize > > in length > > > > when I tried to > > > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0.720 /mnt/diska > > > > Weird, isn't it? Should I be afraid of it? > > Be afraid. Be *very* *very* afraid. When this error comes from > mounting a DOS hard drive partitiion, it's a prelude to FreeBSD > sh**ing all over your disks - and not just the DOS ones ! I know about it. The reason I am asking this question here is that I get this message when I mount a floppy. It is not about a hard drive. -- Victor Sudakov http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm