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From: kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
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Subject: DOS trashed my U*IX partition
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Date: 10 Jan 90 16:25:04 GMT
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This just came up recently, I know, but now it's happened to me, and since I
wasn't paying attention before, would some kind soul summarize to the net, or
send me email.
here's the particulars:

DOS 4.01 
1 meg DOS partition on drive 1.
103 meg U*IX partition on drive 1.
64 meg DOS partition on drive 2.

I Fastback restored a 3700000 text file from floppy to D:
used V. Buerg's List 7.1a to split the file into 4 pieces.
(1 original + 4 pieces, 7+ megs total)
copied the four pieces to four floppies.
deleted the four pieces.
entered 'DIR', which output the directory, then paused to calculate disk free
space.

Then, both drive 1 and drive 2 access lights lit up, and flashed in unison for
about five seconds.

fdisked to set unix partition to boot, rebooted, logged in as root and ran
fsck, which reported a dozen or so files trashed.

Any thoughts?






Chewey, get us outta here!
                 
kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov             (818)354-8771
Kaleb Keithley