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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:11:44 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Neil Bliss <nbliss@mvista.com>
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Subject: Re: [FS BUG] How to easily corrupt an UFS file system with user access 
 and big fake files.
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Neil Bliss wrote:
> Is it normal for a sparse file to cause fsck errors?

It's normal for you to see fsck "errors" on any FS that
you fsck while it is still mounted.

Which is what is happening here.

-- Terry

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