From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: Fw: [9fans] some problems Message-ID: <20010828135706.H15277@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <1070FB530C37D511967A006008F6A51456BD8F@hktgv001v3> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1070FB530C37D511967A006008F6A51456BD8F@hktgv001v3>; from g.j.kuiper@kpn.com on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:46:17PM +0200 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:57:06 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e6fee846-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:46:17PM +0200, g.j.kuiper@kpn.com wrote: > > This is an interesting thought. Actually, there was a spell of disc activity > before the hang, but by the sound of it I thought that this was on disc 1. > My Plan9 partion is on disc 2. > > How long would it take to check a 5 Gb partition ? I waited 5 to 10 minutes. > A minute or so is my feeling for a 1Gig drive, on an obsolete i486. > And how would this fit in with the fact that I can fix it by rerunning > bootsetup from the installfloppy ? > I pass. If, as you say, the 9fat partition is the one that gets clobbered, then I could only be guessing, and most likely wrong. I would still watch the disk activity light, though :-) ++L