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Date:      Tue, 9 Jul 1996 00:35:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca>, Derek Law <derekl@earthlink.net>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: i have a question
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.91.960709003229.8298A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960708193537.15831D-100000@downlink.eng.umd.edu>

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On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Chuck Robey wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> > On my 2.2-960501-SNAP system here, just listing some of the files on my DOS 
> > slice will cause all my FreeBSD partitions to become ruined well beyond my 
> > ability to repair.  Maybe a bug in the -SNAP code I didn't hear about.
> 
> Let me get this right: you mounted a dos partition, and when you did an 
> ls on it, this damaged your FreeBSD partitions?  I'd never heard of this 
> before, I want to get it straight.

Yup.  I duplicated it a couple times, too.  To be fair, I did an ls on 
several directories.  I can't remember if I cat'd a file, but I think one 
of the times I didn't.  Regardless, I'm fairly sure from the various 
warning I paid no heed to that it happened as soon as I typed `ls' from 
/dos....


--
Outnumbered?  Maybe.  Outspoken?  Never!
tIM...HOEk




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