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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] Oh....Hell.  File server problems.
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 23:09:35 -0400
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(10 bucks if you spot the literature reference from the title; what a mystery.)

I seem to have done a bad thing; my file server thinks that it's dump
disk (pseudo-worm) is full, even though it's really not (uhh, don't ask).
Now, every time I try and boot the file server, it panics.  I don't care
about that so much, since I know how to fix the file server and I've
resigned myself to the fact that I'll have to rebuild it anyway, but
I'm curious as to how I can get my %&@$ data off of the old dump disk.
Just the last dump would be fine.

Normally, I would just use tar or mkfs, but I can't get the file server
to keep it's noggin together long enough to do even that.  :-(  Has anyone
encountered such problems before?  Any advice would be most welcome,
otherwise, I'll just blitz the thing and bear the pain (normally I keep
my data fairly well synchronized between my laptop and the FS at work,
and I'm pretty much the only one who uses it anyway....).

Thanks for any help!

	- Dan C.