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Date:      Thu, 5 Oct 1995 07:23:00 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        rdm@ic.net
Cc:        hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: system crash - help!
Message-ID:  <199510050623.HAA07427@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199510050337.XAA02570@port13.hubbard2.t.ic.net> from "Rob Misiak" at Oct 4, 95 11:37:13 pm

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As Rob Misiak wrote:
> 
> > What do you mean "marked"... you mean "moved to lost+found"?  I hope?
> 
> Unfortunately, no. The files were in the same places that they normally were,
> except (according to ls -l) they were character devices. It happened to many
> random files all over the / partition. Fortunately, I kept backups and I was
> able to restore the files.

I've also seen this, but this was after a severs SCSI bus crash.
(I've been playing with a WORM device that apparently confused the
entires SCSI controller code.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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