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To: Staffan Ulfberg <staffanu@nada.kth.se>
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Subject: Re: Kernel panic 
In-reply-to: Your message of "20 Dec 1998 03:31:52 +0100."
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 19:13:23 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> on that partition.  Hmmmm...  What to do?  Well, I did fsck on the
> live filesystem and answered yes on the question of whether I wanted
> to recover 500MB of "lost" file space.

You fsck'd a live, mounted filesystem?  Really?!?

Of course you paniced.  It's not a bug to freak out when a clueless
administrator stomps on the on-disk version of a filesystem and
renders it inconsistent with various cached memory contents.

- Jordan

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