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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!purdue!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.serv.net!news.serv.net!not-for-mail From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: A somewhat interesting crash Date: 14 Nov 1995 19:12:48 -0800 Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA Lines: 30 Message-ID: <48blrg$qi5@zebu.serv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.201.191.1 Thought this might be of some interest to someone. One of my crashes (P120/2940/32M, for those of you not following my plight. :]) reconstructed the file system in a somewhat interesting way : it turned much of the operating system into block-structured devices. Observe: br-S--S--- 4 816 1792 72, 3604480 May 28 20:26 zcat br-S--S--- 1 816 1792 15, 3604480 May 28 20:35 zdiff br-S--S--- 1 816 1792 99, 3538944 May 28 20:35 zforce br-S--S--- 1 816 1792 62, 3604480 May 28 20:35 zgrep br-S--S--- 1 816 1792 14, 3604480 May 28 20:35 zmore br-S--S--- 1 816 1792 190, 3538944 May 28 20:35 znew br-S--S--- 1 816 1792 70, 3604480 May 28 21:18 whatis br-S--S--- 1 816 1792 156, 3342336 May 28 13:54 uupick br-S--S--- 1 816 1792 228, 3342336 May 28 13:58 uuto br-S--S--- 1 816 1792 228, 3342336 May 28 13:58 uuto br-S--S--- 1 816 1792 32, 3604480 May 28 18:01 tfmtodit br-S--S--- 1 816 1792 216, 3473408 May 28 17:14 tbl br-S--S--- 1 816 1792 192, 3538944 May 28 17:44 refer br-S--S--- 4 816 1792 72, 3604480 May 28 20:26 gunzip br-S--S--- 4 816 1792 72, 3604480 May 28 20:26 gzcat br-S--S--- 1 816 1792 162, 3538944 May 28 20:35 gzexe br-S--S--- 4 816 1792 72, 3604480 May 28 20:26 gzip br-S--S--- 1 816 1792 176, 3407872 May 28 15:19 g++ br-S--S--- 2 816 1792 152, 3407872 May 28 15:02 gcc -- Sean T. Lamont, President / CEO, Abstract Software (ServNet) - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson