Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 04:47:48 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> Cc: philip_milne@il.us.swissbank.com (Philip Milne), hackers@freebsd.org, armando_ferreira@il.us.swissbank.com, charlie_conklin@il.us.swissbank.com Subject: Re: Nightmare. Message-ID: <4910.839936868@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:22:41 %2B0200." <199608131122.AA272325361@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>
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> > tar -cvf /dev/rfd0a / > > This has utterly trashed your boot device (and / lies there.) I seriuosly > doubt that you can do anything but reinstall. Probably the right conclusion, but for the wrong reasons. >What happened is that you have overwritten the filesystem layout from the >same filesystem you were "backing up" and at that *while* you were backing >it up. There shouldn't be anything useful on /dev/rfd0a. Not unless these systems are running with their root filesystems on floppies, no. :-) That would be possible, of course, but insane as even a stand-alone system would want to use MFS for its root filesystem given that a floppy would be far too unreliable. Jordan
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