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- From: janc@amix.commodore.com (Jan Carlson)
- Subject: Re: Unix File System Full
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.010459.21926@amix.commodore.com>
- Organization: AmigaUNIX Anon
- References: <1992Sep6.130125.12862@phillip.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 01:04:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep6.130125.12862@phillip.edu.au> t9014199@phillip.edu.au writes:
- >--
- > Well I finnally got my Tape Drive to work, It was a Termination
- > problem :)
- >
- > When I was testing it out, I started untaring a rather large Tape
- > Archive I had, before I could stop it, it had filled my File System
- > to capacity.
- [...]
- > Can I use the installation diskettes to fix it?
-
- Yes, version 2.03 or 2.1.
-
- 1. Boot from the Install diskettes.
- 2. When it asks whether to install or repair, say: repair.
- 3. Then follow each instruction carefully.
-
- It will take a few minutes to sort out the root partition on the hard drive.
- When has completed, the hard disk will be mounted as /mnt.
- If you untarred files into /home/dazza, you will see them in /mnt/home/dazza.
- Delete some of them, then cd / and type Ctrl-D to log out.
- Then you should be able to reboot normally from the hard drive.
-
- You should have no problem.
-
- Your Installation tape is probably not defective, it was just suffering
- from lack of termination on your tape drive. The tape contains a number
- of cpio archives. The first one is very small. Some of the archives
- are compressed, so you can't read them with simple cpio.
-
- Also, you can often read a "bad" tape if you retension it first. The command
- is "mt retension" or "mt ret".
-
- > Thanks DARREN
- >--
- >Darren Spencer Comp Sci Student RMIT Bundoora (RIP PIT)
- >============================================================================
- >Email: t9014199@phillip.edu.au dazza@arcadia.mc.phillip.edu.au
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