From: unixsys@ssg.com (Rick Emerson) Subject: Re: Be Cafeful reinstalling using MCC .96c images Date: 16 Jul 1992 04:17:00 GMT
orman@iastate.edu (David L Orman) writes:
>
> I recently reinstalled everything using the MCC 0.96 intern dist.
> A problem that I jsut recent found that occured was that when
> installing the script asks if you want it to clean your file system
> before it installs.
>
> This erased my .badblocks from my root dir and make all the bad blocks
> availible to linux! Very very bad.
Are you certain about this? Specifically, this might explain how bad blocks
"leak through" despite having run fdisk and so on. At least under the
mcc-interim flavor. Comments, Owen?
> Moral: either remake the fs or dont let it clean your filesystem.
>
If you could verify this somehow, I'd appreciate it.
Rick
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