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Date:      Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:10:08 -0600
From:      "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <rhawkins@iastate.edu>
To:        Chen Xu <xuc@mcbi-34.med.nyu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Q: mount ext2fs, mdir d: 
Message-ID:  <m10HZ0y-000P4nC@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:43:03 EST." <Pine.SGI.4.03.9903011332090.18331-100000@bragg.med.nyu.edu> 

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Chen wrote,


> 2) any risk to write to ext2 partition? I mean to damage the linux
> partion? 

yes.  very badly.  On 3.0, I found that at random times, random garbage 
would be inserted during writes.  The file structure survives, but 
individual files get creamed.  I don't know about 3.1, but I'll assume 
that pre-3.0 does the same.


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