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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:08:31AM -0800, Noah wrote:

> I just did an ls of the drive on da1.  can I assume that the contents of =
this
> drive did not get trashed?

I should think so.  The sort of disk trashing you would experience
with those low level commands would tend to leave the drive
unmountable -- and as you can mount it and see the contents, I'd say
you're pretty much home and dry.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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