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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: pkg_add, ... BUG
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 07:48:16 -0700
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Igor Vladim Roshchin wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> Let me tell you the story how I've lost about 80MB:

"lost" is such a strong word!  I prefer to think of it as "aggressive
space reclamation." :-)

Which version of FreeBSD, please?  This sounds like the dreaded "remove
your current directory" bug which struck pkg_add when ^C was hit.  It's
been fixed in -stable and all the -current snapshots for awhile.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project