Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 23:20:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk corruption problems in 2.0.5R (CDROM)? Message-ID: <199509130620.XAA00308@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <m0ssgWT-000r3xC@main.statsci.com> from "Scott Blachowicz" at Sep 12, 95 06:21:55 pm
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> free inode /usr/20096 had -268370322 blocks > are you sure that the DOS filesystems know that they end at the end of their slice... if you shrink a DOS partition, but don't re-format the 'drive', then dos will happily allocate blocks in the next slice (well what used to belong to it) I believe 'fips' can fix that.. your fdisk and disklabels look good.. strange.. > sd0s2 - swap (shared between Linux & FreeBSD, or at least that's the goal) hmmm, a C partition, and it's right after the swap too.. > > What are "npx0" and "lp0"? Or more generally, where do I look to find > out what a particular device/controller designation refers to? lp0 is a the lp port.. npx is the numeric coprocessor.. check /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT > > 4) For my sd0, I've seen C/H/S numbers of 1009/43/63 reported by pfdisk > under DOS and 3053/43/63 from the FreeBSD fdisk. Huh? That makes no > sense. That's the first time I've noticed THAT discrepancy. It's a > 1.4Gb (roughly) disc, so the first set of numbers makes more > sense. Hmmm...maybe I ran that fdisk command after the corruption > occurred, so maybe the "in-core disklabel" was corrupt? ignore the # cylinders.. what does boot -v say about BIOS geometries? (use dmesg to see it after booting) > > I ran a bunch of commands (e.g. dmesg, disklabel, fdisk) and their output > follows. excellant.. unfortunatly I can't see anythong wrong there, unless the swap is going to the wrong BSD slice.. (hmm might this be a bug? ) (It MIGHT be untested code?) > Help... (imagine a pathetic, tired little voice there...if I can't get > past this, I might have to fall back to Linux or weed wacking my yard :-() > you seem to have done a very proffessional job of partitionning your disk I can't fault it, unless the BIOS sees things differntly.. julian >
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