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From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: FS Toast
Date: 08 Feb 1994 01:13:33 GMT
Organization: Jordan Hubbard
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References: <1994Feb7.034107.2861@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
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In-reply-to: uddc@pool.info.sunyit.edu's message of Mon, 7 Feb 1994 03:41:07 GMT

In article <1994Feb7.034107.2861@pool.info.sunyit.edu> uddc@pool.info.sunyit.edu (David D. Colbey) writes:
  The file system was Toast! 100's of duplicate I nodes.  My root partition
  appeared to be okay, but after trying to revive my X partition I fsck'ed it
  and my /usr partition and they are all Fried!  This happened once before when
  I was in X and Daily started up, but I thought it was just a fluke.  The File

Well, it's hard to say since certainly the daily script shouldn't have
any deleterious effects on your file system, since `fsck -n' doesn't
write on the file system (I still question the wisdom of doing this
from daily, since it just slows my system down during peak hours [for
me! :-)]).

>System was revivable that time. Can anyone shed some light on this one?
>Oh yeah, BTW I'm using FreeBSD 1.0.2.  A sample of my fstab follows for anyone

I can't say for sure - perhaps your IDE drive has developed some bad
blocks on it?  IDE drives tend to do that, not to mention having no
automatic forwarding of bad blocks, which is why I refuse to touch
one with a stick (SCSI!  SCSI!).

				Jordan
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