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authorGNU Hurd wiki engine <web-hurd@gnu.org>2007-08-12 08:49:59 -0400
committerGNU Hurd wiki engine <web-hurd@gnu.org>2007-08-12 08:49:59 -0400
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<azeem-uni> maybe adding -snapshot makes it totally safe
<neal> azeem: Should be fine.
<tschwinge> Yes.
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+ The problem is actually that the linux block cache doesn't make any consistency between /dev/hda and /dev/hda6, so if you give /dev/hda to qemu, qemu writings won't be consistent with mounting /dev/hda6 in linux. You can give /dev/hda6 directly to qemu and it will be fine.