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From: meulenbr@cst.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: fix to diskcheck(1)
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Date: 21 Sep 90 06:32:41 GMT
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archer%segin4.segin.fr@relay.prime.com (Vincent Archer) writes:

]I reformatted my HD this week-end. After this, I tried to run diskcheck on
]my Minix partitions. It failed, saying it couldn't purge the disk cache. Of
]course it couldn't: it does this by reading NR_BUFS from /dev/ram, and I
]have no ramdisk! So I fixed diskcheck; it will now print a warning, then
]continue (if you get this warning, you might get wrong results as reads are
]now cached).

Just a thought:
wouldn't it be better to read NR_BUFS from /dev/null or /dev/mem?

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