From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 6 16:11: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heinz.jollem.com (c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.104.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FFCA37B4D7 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 16:11:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ernst@localhost) by heinz.jollem.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eA70APj14590; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 01:10:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ernst) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 01:10:24 +0100 From: Ernst de Haan To: Joshua Delong Thomas Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting a music cd (by accident) and then an automatic reboot Message-ID: <20001107011024.A14578@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from jdt2101@ksu.edu on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 04:32:57PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The `mount'ains are the most dangerous area in FreeBSD-land. I once mounted a Mac floppy. Boom. One of the man pages I read (mount ?) stated that a mount of a `damaged' partition may crash the OS. And so it does. Ernst Joshua Delong Thomas wrote: > While trying to play a couple of cds, I was figuring you had to mount the > cd. I wasn't thinking, but anyway, when I tried to mount it, it gave me > a path error, and then the OS automatically rebooted. Why the automatic > reboot when the mount failed? Just a curious question > > -Josh > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message