From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc) Subject: Re: Be Cafeful reinstalling using MCC .96c images Date: 17 Jul 1992 07:03:30 GMT
In article <2yiZNB4w165w@ssg.com> unixsys@ssg.com (Rick Emerson) writes:
: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.
Comment: This misfeature was added at the request of somebody; I should'nt
have done it.
If I get a chance to revise the MCC interim 0.96c this weekend,
this misfeature will disappear.
In the interim, don't use it. I apologise for my bad judgement.
-- Owen
LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk