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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!cf-cm!news From: spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: fsck problems Message-ID: <23420.9210112150@thor.cf.ac.uk> Date: 11 Oct 92 21:50:56 GMT Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) Organization: University of Wales College at Cardiff Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway When trying to install 386bsd on a new machine I ended up with a corrupted filesystem. No problem I thought, fsck will fix it. So I rebooted, fsck failed and dropped into single user mode. I then ran fsck manually and it detected a corrupted directory. When I tried to get it fixed I got an I OUT OF RANGE error and fsck core dumped. I couldn't find any way of getting a clean filespace so eventually I started from scratch with a newfs. There's only one place in fsck that generates this message, pass2.c, and it calls reply("REPLACE"), I think from memory. This machine has to be in use tomorrow so I didn't have time to investigate further but it seems like there may be certain conditions which cause fsck to die. Just though I'd report the problem. -- Paul Richards at Cardiff university, UK. spedpr@uk.ac.cf.thor Internet: spedpr%thor.cf.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk UUCP: spedpr@cf-thor.UUCP or ...!uunet!mcsun!uknet!cf!thor!spedpr +++