Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Modified floppies can crash Linux (fwd) | Date | Tue, 24 Mar 1998 23:11:25 +0000 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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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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