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SubjectRe: Modified floppies can crash Linux (fwd)
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vahakang@cs.Helsinki.FI said:
> However, I didn't think it was the kernel's fault: you really
> _should_ fsck your fs's before mounting. I'm not sure how this should
> be solved; doesn't ext2 panic if a similarly fatal corruption is
> encountered?

Yes. Ext2 will panic the kernel even if it can't read a block on a floppy. I
NEVER use ext2 floppies because of this.

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