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- From: rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich)
- Subject: Re: filesystem dissapears
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.152443.5968@super.org>
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- Organization: Supercomputing Research Center (Bowie, MD)
- References: <GEORGE.92Aug21065529@gloria.csi.compuserve.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:24:43 GMT
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- In article <GEORGE.92Aug21065529@gloria.csi.compuserve.com> gjones@csi.CompuServe.com writes:
- >The problem I am seeing is that the filesystem seems to just
- >"dissapear" randomly. I've gotten the system installed on the hard
- >drive (in a 97 meg partition, letting the install procedure use the
- >default labeling), it boots, I can do an "ls" of the root directory,
- >but subsequent "ls"'s show nothing. "pwd" says "can't exec /bin/pwd"
- >and so forth.
-
- I have seen this too on a compaq where the disk drive was not quite
- set up right. random commands did not work, it turned out the problem was
- the commands themselves had somehow been hashed, not the file system.
- So mount a floppy and run ls off that and make sure that you know it is
- the files disappearing, not ls.
-
- ron
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