From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 24 23:08:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA02675 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:08:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA02668 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:07:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA04645; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:07:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:07:48 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Horus cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: partition... In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970222082653.0067d600@ici.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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