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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1 questions, fs bug?
Date: 20 Dec 1995 16:42:07 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <4b9ecv$48k@helena.MT.net>
References: <4b7q8n$73r@news.sdd.hp.com>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
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In article <4b7q8n$73r@news.sdd.hp.com>, Matt Bonner  <mattb> wrote:
>exactly at the moment) and then there is a makefile left behind
>that is something like 46GB!  How they cram all that into 350MB, I
>don't know...  :-)  So my questions:

It's either a FS or a HW bug.

>1. Anyone else seen anything like this?

When I had bad hardware I saw those types of things.

>2. If i upgrade to 2.1, will it go away?

Possibly.

>3. *Is* there a way to upgrade from 2.0 to 2.1 w/o re-installing?

Unfortunately, no.


Nate
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