At 6:34 PM 6/6/97, brian wildasinn wrote:
>Hi,
>
>cp is acting wacky!
>

>the copy command cp? it never fails that i've got to reboot after
>copying files, otherwise using the vi editor on a freshly copied file
>shows the file doesn't exist, but after rebooting there it is! All other
>directories are fine except the target directory until after rebooting.

This shouldn't happen!  Try booting to single-user mode and do a fsck -f.
(I think that's right.  The option is to tell it to check the fs even if it
is marked clean.  You may also need to specify which filesystem, e.g. /.)

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