Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:07:48 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Horus <horus@ici.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: partition... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970224230626.4530Q-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970222082653.0067d600@ici.net>
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On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Horus wrote: > I was wondering if that in the case that FreeBSD would screw something up > on my hard drive, like erase everything, would it only affect the partition > that it was on or the whole hard drive? This really depends on the nature of the error. In most cases, only the filesystem is damaged; however, it has been known to wreck mounted DOS partitions, especially if they were FIPS'd and get the "Warning: root directory is not a multiple of clustersize in length" message when mounted. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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