From: H. Peter Anvin N9ITP (hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu)
Date: 05/03/92 

From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
Subject: Re: tar, compress, or just my system?
Date: Sun, 3 May 1992 19:22:59 GMT

I believe I have solved the problem referenced in article
<1992May1.021443.899@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>. It appears the cause was a
corrupt filesystem. Running fsck -a *several* times after booting from a
root floppy solved the problem.

        /hpa 

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