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From: art@pilikia.pegasus.com (Art Neilson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Recurring problem in root filesystem
Message-ID: <1990Sep07.184554.27984@pilikia.pegasus.com>
Date: 7 Sep 90 18:45:54 GMT
References: <4010@auspex.auspex.com> <1990Sep04.175054.17770@pilikia.pegasus.com> <4025@auspex.auspex.com>
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In article <4025@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
> [lengthy discussion on ways to fsck root deleted]
>Assuming he has an "fsck" that creates a scratch file.  I don't *think*
>he's running 4.2BSD or later, as their "fsck" doesn't have the message
>he describes.  4.1BSD's might, and it might not bother with a scratch
>file.  S5R3's doesn't create one by default, it only does so when run
>with the "-t" flag.

Points well taken.  I think we need to hear more from the original poster
like what OS he's running, and why is he running fsck on root in the first
place.  Thanks to trn, I followed the thread back to the original post.
It is from one S. Ferguson-Parker of Acadia University.  Hopefully he will
see this and reply.
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