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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:55:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Luis Rios <lrios@ziplink.net>
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Subject: Re: File Descriptors on 2.1.5 Machine
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On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Luis Rios wrote:

> I recently had a 2.1.5 (upgrading to 2.2.7!) machine reboot due to
> problems with a SCSI drive.  When I tried to reboot the machine it
> froze on fsck of dev sd2 and gave errors of bad file descriptors and
> excessive blocks.  I did a fsck -y and waited patiently after 20
> minutes for fsck to complete.  Fsck managed to clear up lots of erros
> and boot fine but I'm getting file descriptor errors when doing ls -la
> or anything.  What can I do to repair the descriptor tables if so
> possible? Will dump and restore restore order to the descriptors?

When you get fsck problems, run fsck until it comes back clean.  Always.

A restore would replace the busted files but you have to clear the busted
files first.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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