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From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
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Subject: Re: panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc
In-Reply-To: <199611220033.TAA21459@orion.webspan.net> from Gary Palmer at "Nov 21, 96 07:33:26 pm"
To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.org (Gary Palmer)
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:43:53 +0100 (MET)
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> 
> Question:
> 
> it's always the same FS with me that bites the dust. Perhaps a
> previous crash of the machine caused a FS corruption fsck isn't
> picking up on. Has anyone who is being bothered by this dumped the fs
> with *tar* (not dump) and resored to see if that fixes the problem?
> 

I might have ased this already, but you do run the latest fsck, including
a patch I installed the other day? Further if it is an FS problem, a tar
won't help. The dump would.

-Guido