Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:47:06 +0000 From: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel panic because I pulled a floppy? Message-ID: <439371EA.8060907@thingy.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <fb6605670512041432w6e272c20yd5af3d727ada4c5f@mail.gmail.com> References: <fb6605670512041432w6e272c20yd5af3d727ada4c5f@mail.gmail.com>
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Michael P. Soulier wrote: > I'm reading "BSD Hacks" by Dru Lavigne, published by O'Reilly. In the > section on managing floppies, it mentions that if you pull a floppy > without umounting it first, the next time to try to access the > filesystem, you'll get a kernel panic. > Is this true? If so, it would be the very first Unix that I've seen > crash from this kind of user-mistake. I've crashed 5.x by pulling a USB umass device and then trying to look at the directory where it was mounted. - d.
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