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From: jparnas@larouch.uucp (Jacob Parnas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Where is the latest version of preen (parallel fsck program)...
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.031330.7025@larouch.uucp>
Date: 7 Jan 91 03:13:30 GMT
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Reply-To: jparnas@larouch.uucp (Jacob Parnas)
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Does anyone know where the latest version of preen is?  I have an old
version that has a bug that if the root partition has a problem with it
the machine reboots forever.  The solution is to boot in single user mode,
and after the second reboot, one gets a prompt and can reboot cleanly.
This is obviously a real pain and a fixed version would be very useful.

Thanks for your help,


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