[comp.unix.msdos] PANIC while deleting directory of DOS mounted fs

bgh@ice9.uucp (barry hannigan) (09/23/90)

i have a disk partitioned as 30M dos, 130M unix running ISC 2.2. to avoid 
jumping back & forth into vpix, i mounted the dos partition 
 
	# /etc/mount -f DOS /dev/dsk/0p1 /c

i created a directory, moved files into it, deleted the files. but when i 
issued the rm command it panic'd right away. sorry i dont have an kernel
message. this is an avoidable problem, just seems strange.

barry.
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src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) (09/28/90)

bgh@ice9.uucp (barry hannigan) writes:
>i created a directory, moved files into it, deleted the files. but when i 
>issued the rm command it panic'd right away. sorry i dont have an kernel
>message. this is an avoidable problem, just seems strange.

i once used a dos mv utility (*not* copy) on a mounted DOS partition
and had that kind of fun with it too, it munged the dos filesystem.
i *strongly* suggest not to mount dos partitions unless you must have
one for running programs that don't work under vp/ix.
it's much better to simply have the dos files on the unix filesystem,
and it's much faster too. security is another issue (try to set group
permissions in the dos filesystem...).
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