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Re: [MiNT] Weird Disk problem



> Maybe. But why I'm the only one victim? Everybody here are using Falcons 
> for years, anybodu remember such crashes?

Well now that you mention it ;-)

On anything lower than my Mega STe I was victim to harddrive crashes
almost weekly.  Now for some reason those systems treat me right but I
don't do much with my 1040.  My Mega STe is reliable.  The falcon I
notice is *ultra* reliable but I did have a strange issue once.  

My system backup script consists of copying 4 partitions from an IDE
disk into folders on a scsi disk.  It used to do rm -rf /h/c/, rm
-rf /h/d/ and so on.  Somehow, someway there was some sort of corruption
that caused it to start rm -rf / so it quickly wiped out C:, D: and part
of E:.  This was annoying to say the least, however the backup from
before was still on my backup disk so this wasn't too bad.  Also I was
able to recover most of what was already on D: and E: even though it
wiped files so this was quite good!   This is for sure not a TOS bug.
This is a bug I poked at in either ext2 or freemint.  These things
happen and our userbase isn't big enough to weed out stuff like that.
Instead I dealt with the situation much more easily.  mkfs.ext2 H:
before I start the backup script which no longer rm -rf's ;)  I wish
though I could backup over samba but that doesn't work.  Also making
huge .tar.gz files doesn't work either.  That's something that should be
able to be found.

Thanks,
-- 
Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.com>
Atari-source.com

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