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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: WARNING : Deinstall in SCO UNIX DANGEROUS!
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.003120.10028@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 16 Mar 91 00:31:20 GMT
References: <357@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US> <1991Mar10.174722.20568@NCoast.ORG> <1991Mar11.163159.14640@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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As quoted from <1991Mar11.163159.14640@watdragon.waterloo.edu> by azakinthinos@lion.uwaterloo.ca (Aris Zakinthinos):
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| In article <1991Mar10.174722.20568@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
| >I did the same deinstall Robert spoke of (removing the DOS and OS/2 cross-
| >development stuff) under 2.3.1 and /usr didn't vanish.  We'll see what happens
| >when 2.3.2 gets here.  (I found out why it's taking so long, at least....)
| 
| A friend of mine did the same deinstall and everything seemed to work fine.
| Then we did a fsck (we had some wired problems) and low and behold nearly
| the whole #%$@&# file system was screwed.  I can't exactly blame the
| deinstall but that was the only major thing that has happened to cause
| any type of file system failure.
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Well, my deinstall was some four months ago.  *No* fsck problems, major or
otherwise, before or since.

++Brandon
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