From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 29 11:55:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.telestream.com (mail.telestream.com [205.238.4.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ACA81530C for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:55:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keith@mail.telestream.com) Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by mail.telestream.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA18867; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:54:55 -0800 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:54:55 -0800 (PST) From: To: Jonathan Chen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad file descriptors In-Reply-To: <19991130085022.B10264@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Did the fsck and for some reason smoked 25 gig's of /home/ hehehe funny now that I've rebuilt the dang array. Wasn't so funny a couple hours ago. That's what I get for doing fsck -a I suppose. :) Read the fsck man page dispite the warning thought I would "sack up" and just go for it. All is well now.. would still like anyone to tell me what it means to have a bad file descriptor.. Thanks. Keith On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 11:08:17PM -0800, keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: > > > Just got this error on half of the user directories when doing an ls in > > /home > > ls: : Bad file descriptor > > Are you using /bin/ls? > > How about fsck'ing the /home partition? (in single user mode, of course) > > Jonathan Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > When the character of a man is not clear to you, > look at his friends. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message