From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 18 23:26:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA24849 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 23:26:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA24841 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 23:26:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0zV8ld-0007Kt-00; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 00:26:09 -0600 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id AAA19744; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 00:26:07 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199810190626.AAA19744@harmony.village.org> To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: softupdates and/or fsck bugs or features? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 18 Oct 1998 20:23:48 -0000." <199810182023.NAA09222@usr07.primenet.com> References: <199810182023.NAA09222@usr07.primenet.com> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 00:26:06 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199810182023.NAA09222@usr07.primenet.com> Terry Lambert writes: : Update your fsck. My fsck is the Oct 14 fsck... : There was a bug in fsck that had it not counting the link in / and : the links in the /lost+found directory. That's not what I'm seeing... As an update, I did a fsck -y a few times, and deleted the "useless" files inbetween runs and was able to get back to a stable disk. It appears that fsck wasn't putting files into a full lost+found, but was instead just letting the references dangle until lost+found was empty enough that an fsck would complete w/o dropping anything on the floor. Now, to rebuild my freebsd cvs tree, where did I put those ctm files... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message