From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 18:07:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA01318 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 18:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from optim.ism.net ([205.199.12.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA01294; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 18:07:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [206.58.65.35] (slip3.ism.net [206.58.65.35]) by optim.ism.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA18127; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 19:07:35 -0600 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 19:12:06 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackerss@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org From: russ@ism.net (Russ Pagenkopf) Subject: file size problems Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Got an odd one here (and I apologize for the cross-posting). Almost all of the files in my /stand directory have changed size to 802816 (the rest are at 456940) with a creation date of Nov 18 1995. Now knowing darn well that the system 2.1.0R was clean installed after that date :) and that I haven't done anything *that* weird (other than installing INN) does anyone have any ideas as to what might be wrong? It's a real problem when one blows a 30 meg / partition and can't get it back under 100% :-). This happened after making a tar+gzip backup of / to a jaz drive. Copying the files to other partitions, moving the files, and replacing the files with clean copies changes nothing; they stick at the same size. Other odd note that may apply here. Whenever I shut the system down (shutdown now) and then sync, upon reboot it complains that the clean flag was not set on either the / or /usr partition and fsck fixes it. If I don't do the sync, it has all kinds of kittens about things not being set right on the / partition although it appears to fix them and only has the clean flag fix problem on /usr. Interestingly enough the only thing retained in dmesg for either partition is WARNING: / was not properly dismounted Finally, I'm also running a jaz drive and it also has the same 'clean flag not set' problem. System: 2.1.0R, atlantis motherboard, buslogic scsi, ide cdrom, 2 gig drive, 32 meg ram. Before I blow this away and rebuild anyone want to take a stab at it? tia rus Russ Pagenkopf (russ@ism.net)