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- From: zik@zikzak.apana.org.au (Michael Saleeba)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: ufs boot partitions are certain death!
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 21:14:02 +1100
- Organization: Zikzak public access UNIX, Melbourne Australia
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- blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter) writes:
- >amiga.physik is probably the busiest Amix machine in the world. And
- >it has, you guessed it, an *ufs* boot partition. We've yet to see a
- >munged inode. The boot partition is probably being fsck'ed 4 times
- >a week (due to frequent reboots). Maybe we were just lucky, but I'd
- >rather suspect that you had media problems or a broken version of
- >the ufs. Do you use Amix 2.1 with all patches applied?
-
- I'm running 2.1p2a. My system's pretty busy too, but I doubt that it
- approaches amiga.physik. That disk is probably ok - it's a Quantum 425
- and I've had no problems on other partitions, even when it was
- partitioned differently.
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- | -|- Zik -|- | "Every cloud has its cloud and |
- | zik@zikzak.apana.org.au | every silver lining can be |
- | Michael Saleeba | melted down and sold." |
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