Date: 05 Apr 1998 18:20:00 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Niklas Saers <berenmls@saers.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSDOSFS Message-ID: <xzpiuoo6y1b.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Niklas Saers's message of "Sun, 29 Mar 1998 13:08:35 %2B0200 (CEST)" References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980329130619.2764B-100000@saers.com>
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Niklas Saers <berenmls@saers.com> writes: > Hi. I was just wondering... last night I mounted a MS-DOS floppy, which > had some bad tracks on it. Because of this, I was no longer able to > access, not even umount the floppy. But, what was worse, was that both my > two harddisk-partitions which were mounted as msdosfs became just as > unavaible as the floppy. Why does the entire filesystem go down with one > minor problem such as the floppy? And how can I avoid this. (except from > using bad floppies, that is :) ) Don't mount floppies, use mtools instead. -- fprintf(stderr, "I have a closed mind. It helps keeping the rain out.\n"); To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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