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Nathan Whitehorn wrote:

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Given that subscribing is free, easy, and doesn't rot your teeth or anything, 
one might presume you don't WANT to see replies?

Might be helpful if we knew what you meant by 'destroyed' w/r those partitions.

Do you mean it corrupted the disklabel?

Made pudding with the directory structure?

Or just munged the [few | many] files that were actively in-use?

Softupdates is *supposed to* leave things as they were at some <not fully 
deterministic length of time> earlier state.

It may lose some updates, but I've been rather rude to it, intentionally and 
otherwise, w/o making it lose any more than that...

Details?  Specifics?

Bill