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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: S5 file system magic number (was (Re: Pixel/80 trashed fs)
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Date: Tue, 6-Jan-87 02:38:36 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  6 02:38:36 1987
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Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
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In article <10848@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:

> Requiring a valid magic number would have required that the root file
> system be fixed before an S5 kernel was booted on it...I figure they just
> decided this was too much trouble.

Too bad.  The pre-conversion fix could have been done with a one-line script:

	echo '0x3fc?W ' | adb -w /dev/root - > /dev/null
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	Geoff Kuenning
	{hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff