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    SubjectRe: What's left over.
    On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Hugh Dickins wrote:
    > I dealt with crash dumps quite a lot over 10 years with SCO UNIX,
    > OpenServer and UnixWare: which were addressing the PC market, not
    > own hardware.
    >
    > It's a real worry that writing a crash dump to disk might stomp in the
    > wrong place, but I don't recall it ever happening in practice. But
    > occasionally, yes, a dump was not generated at all, or not completed.

    IIRC, some years ago wuarchive.wustl.edu went down for a few days because the
    machine paniced and dumped to the wrong partition...

    Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

    Geert

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