Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 10:39:27 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bynum@NU.cs.fsu.edu, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! Filesystem errors Message-ID: <199504280039.KAA11699@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I was trying to do a couple of things to my IDE drive at one time (copying >files from it, two sets of gunzips on different partitions) and here is >what happened: >Note: the drive is a mostly MSDOS (except for a 1 meg FreeBSD partition) > drive and is mounted in FreeBSD 2.0R. >Apr 26 08:09:18 apollo kernel: getblk: invalid buffer size: 34816 >... Fixed in -current. >I didn't think much of these and proceeded to do a "rm -rf" to a DOS >directory in FreeBSD. It worked. >After rebooting into DOS I noticed that the partition that I did the >"rm -rf" on had NO files!? I know that I only removed a directory and not >every single directory. Scandisk (in DOS 6.2) reports there are lost clusters >amounting to 114MB (all the files on the disk) and asks if I should save them >to a file. Also under freebsd I get all types of garbage >being present on the filesystem (files with bad names, files with escape >characters in their names etc). What should I do? Restore from your backup. >Another related question: Has there been any work done on mounting DOS >filesystems since 2.0R? If not, then does everyone mount DOS filesystems as Some major bugs are fixed. >read only to avoid these types of problems (another problem of "mv"ing on a >DOS partition results in kernel panic) ? Fixed in -current. >Is there a way to mount them safely >instead of a regular mount? Mount them read-only, or maybe use mtools. Bruce
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