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From: Russ Cox <russcox@gma...>
Subject: Strange Plan9 Reinstallation Phenomonon
Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 10:14:32 -0500

> The `copy distribution' part went like lightning
> and when I rebooted, not only did I have Plan9, but I had the same
> setup I had a couple days before just before the BSD installation.
> 
> I've been using the Plan 9 for a little while now, and it seems to be
> working.  My question is do you think I can expect this to work, or is
> this a real fluke?  I had actually done quite a bit with the FreeBSD:
> building from sources and installing quite a few ports.

I'd run a check on the file system, but it's quite possible.
Plan 9 is small, and it's likely that your BSD setup was carefully
using only a few blocks from each cylinder group and completely
missed it.

Russ