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Subject: Re: blkfree: freeing free block
In-Reply-To: <199802180308.BAA18436@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> from Joao Carlos Mendes Luis at "Feb 18, 98 01:08:54 am"
To: jonny@coppe.ufrj.br (Joao Carlos Mendes Luis)
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 01:39:17 -0200 (EDT)
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#define quoting(Joao Carlos Mendes Luis)
// This is also new.  Although it's possible to be a hardware problem,
// it's too much coincidence to happen just after the upgrade.
// 
// Feb 18 00:51:25 gaia /kernel: bad block 262144, ino 38502
// Feb 18 00:51:25 gaia /kernel: pid 18182 (rm), uid 0 on /var: bad block
// 
// Consequences: I have a stuck file at /var/spool/mqueue/.hoststat,
// purgestat wastes lots of CPU, and never stops, except ^C.

...

// Will try a reboot right now, hoping fsck solves this problem.

Rebooted, single user.  fsck found no problem.

Mounted /var, and tried to rm again.  No luck.
Fortunately, there's always clri around.

umount /var, clri stuck file inode, clri stuck dir inode, fsck find an error.

mount again.  dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/foo, no error

dd if=/var/tmp/foo of=/dev/null, no error

umount /var, dd if=/dev/rsd0e of=/dev/null, no error

(No, no, no.  I'll not dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0e !!!   :)  )

So, what was the problem ?

(Is it time to go -hackers, or is this the right forum ?)

					Jonny

PS: Please, somebody remove the "Clri is obsoleted for normal file
system repair work by fsck(8)." from clri(8) manpage.  :)

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+55 21 290-4698				jonny@coppe.ufrj.br
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