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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-lond.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!usenet From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Strange root fs corruption ? Date: 4 Oct 1996 10:38:24 GMT Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <532pf0$ca@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <nA8MX3a@quack.kfu.com> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: anorak.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 In article <nA8MX3a@quack.kfu.com>, nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes: > On other occasions, playing with both the DOS partition and the > FreeBSD one at the same time has led to bizzare sorts of file > corruption, but fscking afterwards (and I mean _real_ fsck, not > just -p) has not shown any big problems. I wouldn't go near DOS filesystems greater than around 512Mb until the filesystem code rewrite is complete. They can eat your whole machine ! Also, the apm stuff in 960801 gobbled /bin/sh and /sbin on my laptop. It was a pain in the ass patching it (thank god for the fixit floppy). -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....