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Date:      Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:47:06 +0000
From:      David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel panic because I pulled a floppy?
Message-ID:  <439371EA.8060907@thingy.apana.org.au>
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Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> I'm reading "BSD Hacks" by Dru Lavigne, published by O'Reilly. In the
> section on managing floppies, it mentions that if you pull a floppy
> without umounting it first, the next time to try to access the
> filesystem, you'll get a kernel panic.
> Is this true? If so, it would be the very first Unix that I've seen
> crash from this kind of user-mistake.


I've crashed 5.x by pulling a USB umass device and then trying to look
at the directory where it was mounted.


- d.




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