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Subject: Re: root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length 
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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 23:40:43 +0100
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> 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.

Er, ok then, Be worried.  Be *very* *very* worried :-/

I've not seen this with a floppy, but I'd worry.

> -- 
> Victor Sudakov
> http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm

-- 
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