Re: Zombies ate my floppy !

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From: Rachel Polanskis
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 00:00

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Umm,

I ended up rebooting anyway -
but not before sending the sync command, and kicking Robert off the system!
This also did not return a prompt.

calling shutdown did not return a prompt either:
I never got to the halt message,
but I took a gamble and reset the machine.

It came up OK, although it did fsck for several minutes.
Seems to be fine now.

MORAL:
Do not remove media with out unmounting first!!!
I was lucky this time, I'll never make that mistake again ;)

I was not aware that an incorrectly mounted floppy could be so dangerous!

Is there a better way or a softer option?
  
bye

Rachel


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Rachel Polanskis            grove@zeta.org.au            Robert Hazeltine
                     r.polanskis@nepean.uws.edu.au
                http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/grove.html

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