Matthew Wakeling said,
>> Probably true, /if/ you manage to cause physical damage to the disk
>> while in use.
> A dying motherboard/SCSI controller/disk will do that for you quite
> happily.
A dying PSU causes similar apparent symptoms, but they go away after
power is restored. I wish I'd known that the first time it happened :(
> Also, if you manage to interrupt the format command before it has got
> very far, you will have destroyed some very important PFS3 data
> structures. However, you can recover a lot of data from a
> partially-formatted FFS partition.
If I format a partition, I either expect or deserve to lose all data on
it :-/
Neil
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