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From: spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: fsck problems
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Date: 11 Oct 92 21:50:56 GMT
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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.
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