Hello from Gregg C Levine
In a word, "Yes". I have seen it happen on a system running Linux,
here, and the disk was going. It would eventually destroy its
partition table, but that is beside the point.
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Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon(a)worldnet.att.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: pups-admin(a)minnie.tuhs.org [mailto:pups-admin@minnie.tuhs.org]
On
Behalf Of Carl Lowenstein
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 11:31 PM
To: pups(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [pups] 2.11BSD device config trouble
> From: "Steven M. Schultz" <sms(a)2BSD.COM>
> To: pups(a)minnie.tuhs.org
> Subject: Re: [pups] 2.11BSD device config trouble
> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:43:11 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Hi -
>
> > From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz(a)unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
>
> > > 'halt' button?
> > [...]
> > Noticed that already. I am really not used to Unix stuff of that
age.
>
> :)
>
> I did the the same thing - wondered why I could never get a
clean
file system.
Then I realized what was going on.
Isn't this really true of Unix systems of any age, when doing fsck
on a mounted root file system?
carl