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From: phil@amd70.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: Raw vs. block device.  I'm confused.
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Date: Sun, 8-Jan-84 23:09:02 EST
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Steve Dyer, your article was helpful to a novice like me. But it raises
another question. I once had a slightly corrupt root filesystem which
I fixed by using adb. I can't remember whether I used the raw or block
device but from your article I must have used the block device. The
question is: should I sync or not before rebooting the system? If I
don't sync, then the area I adb'd won't be written. If I do sync, which
takes precedence, the in-core superblock or the block I adb'd?
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Phil Ngai (408) 988-7777 {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amd70!phil