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From: jcs@chinet.UUCP (John C. Sucilla)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: The Adventures of Minix on the AT&T PC6300
Message-ID: <1226@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 03:28:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: chinet.1226
Posted: Fri Jun 26 03:28:29 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 08:40:33 EDT
Organization: Chinet, Chicago Ill.
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Keywords: Minix shutdown fsck


Miscelaneous info...
Since Minix does not have a shutdown script, it is necessary for
hard disk user's to stop the system as described below to prevent
file system damage.

1) Issue a sync.
2) Immediately kill -9 the /etc/update process (PID 12).
3) Unmount all file systems.
4) Stop the system.

Since I began using this procedure, fsck has not had to do a single
repair. Yea, I know... It's common sense, but maybe this will help
somebody somewhere!

While I'm at it, if anybody's having problems with mined truncating
files, execute sync upon leaving mined.

Did anybody get the complete source for the version of ed that was
recently posted? I seem to be missing several functions starting at
dowrite() in the makefile.
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