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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: fsck incorrectly found no errors
To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen)
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 21:59:00 +0200 (MET DST)
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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