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From: jpl@allegra.UUCP (John P. Linderman)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: 4.2 Dining on /root
Message-ID: <2214@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Jan-84 08:06:05 EST
Article-I.D.: allegra.2214
Posted: Mon Jan 16 08:06:05 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Jan-84 02:33:29 EST
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On three occasions, our 780 running 4.2 has apparently hung, and,
upon rebooting, root has been so thoroughly blown away that fsck
(even running off backup blocks) cannot even get started.  Has
anyone else seen this sort of behavior?  Better still, does anyone
know how to stop it?

John P. Linderman  Department of Radical Surgery  allegra!jpl