From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 14 1: 9:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f76.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDA6937B423 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 01:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 01:09:24 -0700 Received: from 209.246.110.152 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:09:24 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.246.110.152] From: "gerald stoller" To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: GS_Stoller@juno.com Subject: HELP: Disk/file-systems are loused up Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 04:09:24 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Sep 2000 08:09:24.0487 (UTC) FILETIME=[18302170:01C01E23] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I started up my (version 3.3 ) freeBSD , and the first thing that I did was mount a MSDOS diskette and did a find on it (with -name "*hd*" ). I got three lines of output stating something like 'date error; month (14) out of range', then a long pause (during which I typed several ctl-C's ), and the system crashed. I booted immediately, and the system informed me (after the boot) that the disk is loused up and I should run fsck , which I did. I ran it several times and it didn't fix the problem until I ran fsck -p . I tried the find again, with the same results, but this time I withdrew the floppy during the pause trying for another type of termination to the find (rather than a system crash, I was hoping for a message that the device was inaccessible and that I could respond in such a way that the command would abort). Unfortunately, the system crashed again. This time, no matter what I did with fsck I couldn't get the file systems cleaned up. Any suggestions? Send responses to me here and to me as GS_Stoller@juno.com . _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message