How are you "rebooting" the system?

If you just press the reboot button, then NetBSD doesn't have a
chance to update the directories on disk...  Use "shutdown -r
now" or "reboot" commands!

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:

> I have encountered a very annoying behaviour of the editor ed (I HATE vi!).
> It appears to function flawlessly while I am changing rc.conf and ttys. I
> finally "w" the file (it reports the correct number of bytes written); then
> I "q". A "ls -l" gives the correct number of bytes.
> 
> Then I reboot, to take advantage of the changes. On coming up again, either
> in the minishell of the Installer or the regular system, the changed files
> are empty! And I mean EMPTY - not just the changes lost, but the whole
> d&*&* file! I finally got around it by editing these files outside of
> netbsd and "cpin"ing them back in. I haven't had a chance to try ed since.
> 
> Is this unique to ed, or is it a system problem? Is it restricted to
> nascent systems or is it a continuing problem? Anybody else so archaic as
> to use ed?
> 
> Dan Killoran
> 
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