Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 19:01:25 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update: 2.0.5 scrambled filesystems. Message-ID: <199506190201.TAA00928@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jun 95 21:44:05 EDT." <199506190144.VAA02970@rwwa.com>
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>Problem: scrambled filesystems result from doing: >``find / -type f -print | xargs cat >/dev/null'' > >I've tried several things (listed shortly) and keep getting the >same basic problem (either panics due to scrambled filesystems, >or the command completes, but a following ``fsck -n'' shows all >kinds of corruption. The curruption is still there after a re-boot. >Often the system isn't able to sync out the final disk blocks (it >says ``giving up''. The fsck errors seen are always on either >the /dos filesystem, the /usr filesystem, or both, but *never* >on the / (root) filesystem. Also, booting on dos and running >scandisk never shows any problems (and running some of the dos >software whose file are mentioned on the fsck output is ok too). ... >Ideas? Yeah, try not mounting your dos filesystem and see if that makes any difference. -DG
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