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Date:      Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:06:09 +0300
From:      Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player
Message-ID:  <4C778001.3030809@otenet.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20100827072416.GA2516@current.Sisis.de>
References:  <20100823070819.GB2539@current.Sisis.de>	<4C7241C2.2000305@otenet.gr>	<20100823112621.GA4367@current.Sisis.de> <4C725BFC.90006@otenet.gr>	<20100824084225.GA2160@current.Sisis.de>	<4C739A78.4070303@otenet.gr> <20100827072416.GA2516@current.Sisis.de>

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 On 27/08/2010 10:24 π.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote:
>
> Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time?
> I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from...
>
> Will prepare the key again or just fill in the dumps I have...
>
> 	matthias
>

I've heard of stories of data 'fading out' from USB flash drives after
some period of complete inactivity.
Haven't experienced this myself though. Otherwise your procedure looks
fine and it shouldn't fail.



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