Hello from Gregg C Levine
In a word, "Yes". I have seen it happen on a system running Linux,
here, and the disk was going. It would eventually destroy its
partition table, but that is beside the point.
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Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pups-admin at minnie.tuhs.org [mailto:pups-admin at minnie.tuhs.org]
On
> Behalf Of Carl Lowenstein
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 11:31 PM
> To: pups at minnie.tuhs.org
> Subject: Re: [pups] 2.11BSD device config trouble
> 
> > From: "Steven M. Schultz" <sms at 2BSD.COM>
> > To: pups at minnie.tuhs.org
> > Subject: Re: [pups] 2.11BSD device config trouble
> > Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:43:11 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> > Hi -
> >
> > > From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
> >
> > > > 'halt' button?
> > > [...]
> > > Noticed that already. I am really not used to Unix stuff of that
age.
> >
> > 	:)
> >
> > 	I did the the same thing - wondered why I could never get a
clean
> > 	file system.   Then I realized what was going on.
> 
> Isn't this really true of Unix systems of any age, when doing fsck
> on a mounted root file system?
> 
>     carl