Re: Bizarre problem, at my wits' end

1999-08-10 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Ian Eure wrote: I am having the strangest problem. [...] Okay, that's weird. As a demonstration, I took my Potato server into singleuser mode, unmounted the partition mounted on /tmp, and overwrote the first 128k with data from /dev/zero. I then rebooted (`shutdown -r

Bizarre problem, at my wits' end

1999-08-07 Thread Ian Eure
I am having the strangest problem. As a demonstration, I took my Potato server into singleuser mode, unmounted the partition mounted on /tmp, and overwrote the first 128k with data from /dev/zero. I then rebooted (`shutdown -r now') to show how fsck worked (new admin) - well, it also checked my