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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 1996 13:35:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        Avi Goldfinger <avi4@mail.netvision.net.il>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: last nasty sector & FIPS
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960111133425.5504a-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199601111914.MAA17788@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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I would suspect it's probably not the swap file if it's a single block, 
more likely it's the mirror image of the FAT stuff that DOS does so it 
can unformat.

If you do a dir for hidden files, you'll see it.  THen you can use attrib 
to change the attributes on it and delete it.  Next time you boot dos, it 
should rebuild it.

On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > I run DEFRAG, so I could make the new partition for FreeBSD, but some 
> > unmovable block is at the last sector of the disk, and I don't know what 
> > file is it. That way I can't use FIPS.
> > What should I do?
> 
> Turn off swapping.  It's a block in your swap file.
> 
> Then you can reboot, defrag, use fips, turn swapping back on, and
> reboot.
> 
> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
> 



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