On Sat, 03 Dec 2005, David Taylor wrote: > I have a USB drive (SanDisk 1GB flash drive), which I have mounted > on a windows PC using samba 3.0. > > I recently discovered the copy of my files on my USB device were > corrupted (thankfully I had a backup), being filled entirely with > 0's (that's ASCII '0', not NUL). > > I have managed to reproduce the problem with these steps. > > 1. Mount USB drive on (say) /usb > 2. Share /usb over samba > 3. (Optional) On windows PC mount \\server\usb as (say) U: > 4. Change something on /usb drive (from windows or freebsd) > 5. On FreeBSD machine type "umount /usb" -- get "Device busy" error > 6. View changed file.
I should probably mention that this is with the drive formatted with a FAT filesystem. -- David Taylor _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"