Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 21:59:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck incorrectly found no errors Message-ID: <199609041959.VAA11190@gvr.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.960904124431.436X-100000@mail.cdsnet.net> from Jaye Mathisen at "Sep 4, 96 12:46:31 pm"
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Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > All I can say is that I have seen the exact same thing, and when it > happens to your 20GB news partition, it sucks the big one. > > I crashed, rebooted, fsck'd 2x, and it crashed regularly with fs > corruption problems. Yet the disks check out fine. > > Once I newfs them, no more problems. (Other than the loss of data). > > Seems to be a problem in fsck I would think. > Fsck is supposed to find this error in pass2 (ZERO LENGTH DIRECTORY). It does not howver. It shouldn't be too hard to find out what is wrong. First I have to find a large disk to reinstall the filesystem. -Guido
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