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Date:      	Thu, 18 Apr 1996 20:43:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Joe Beiter <jwb@xioa.cosmic.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: file system corruption after doing a find
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960418204102.3560B-100000@haven.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <199604182106.VAA02906@xioa.cosmic.org>

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On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Joe Beiter wrote:

> Dell Latitude XPi90
> FreeBSD 2.1.0r
> 16 MB Ram/60 MB swap
> Hard Drive: IBM-DPRA-21215 1160MB
> 
> Three partitions, Winblows 95 on first ~400MB (plus that swap out thing)
>                   60MB of swap on third
>                   Balance on second (Freebsd).
> 
> Twice this has happend after executing a find. I run find and it
> corrupts the file system where it looks. My last one was a find
> off root. Practically the entire file system was trashed.
> 
> I had the system *just right* too.. damn damn damn. Does anyone know
> how to prevent this from happening again or what caused it? I *need*
> unix on this. 

  Do you have the msdos partition mounted anywhere?  If so, try it 
without it mounted.

  Also, put the swap space into the FreeBSD partition (ie. use only two 
partitions).  This seems better to me, but YMMV.

Tom



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