From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jun 3 18:50:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA03658 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 18:50:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA03650; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 18:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA03588; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 11:40:53 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606040210.LAA03588@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: file size problems To: russ@ism.net (Russ Pagenkopf) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 11:40:52 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackerss@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Russ Pagenkopf" at Jun 2, 96 07:12:06 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Russ Pagenkopf stands accused of saying: > > Almost all of the files in my /stand directory have changed size to 802816 > (the rest are at 456940) with a creation date of Nov 18 1995. Now knowing That's normal. There are really only two files there, the rest should just be links to one of these. What does 'du /stand' tell you? > flag fix problem on /usr. Interestingly enough the only thing retained in > dmesg for either partition is > > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted Your shutdown is not happening cleanly. You may have a hardware bogon that's not resulting in the clean flag being written. > System: 2.1.0R, atlantis motherboard, buslogic scsi, ide cdrom, 2 gig > drive, 32 meg ram. > > Before I blow this away and rebuild anyone want to take a stab at it? You can just throw all of /stand away, it's not necessary. > Russ Pagenkopf (russ@ism.net) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[