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From: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP (Piercarlo Grandi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: ps INSISTS on accessing the floppy (/dev/rdsk/fd) on SysV/AT 2.4
Keywords: ps
Message-ID: <809@aber-cs.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 89 12:44:11 GMT
Reply-To: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
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Organization: Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth
	(Disclaimer: my statements are purely personal)
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In article <264@tree.UUCP> stever@tree.UUCP (Steve Rudek) writes:

	[ describes how he restored the root filesystem from the floppy
	in some sneaky way (without really knowing what's going on...)
	and then every time he runs ps the floppy must be there ]

    I don't know.  Does anyone?

Very bizarre. try to see if it does the same when saying

	ps -s /dev/null

If it no longer tries to read the floppy, then you know why

I am surmising that /dev/swap is linked to /dev/dsk/fd. It may
also be the case that your swapdev is still on the ramdisk...
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