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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
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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....