From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 21:33:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA11151 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 21:33:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA11138 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 21:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA14239; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 00:33:27 -0400 Received: (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA13713; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 00:35:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 00:35:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Chuck Robey cc: Tim Vanderhoek , Derek Law , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i have a question In-Reply-To: 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 Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > On my 2.2-960501-SNAP system here, just listing some of the files on my DOS > > slice will cause all my FreeBSD partitions to become ruined well beyond my > > ability to repair. Maybe a bug in the -SNAP code I didn't hear about. > > Let me get this right: you mounted a dos partition, and when you did an > ls on it, this damaged your FreeBSD partitions? I'd never heard of this > before, I want to get it straight. Yup. I duplicated it a couple times, too. To be fair, I did an ls on several directories. I can't remember if I cat'd a file, but I think one of the times I didn't. Regardless, I'm fairly sure from the various warning I paid no heed to that it happened as soon as I typed `ls' from /dos.... -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk