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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.dra.com!news.he.net!news.cichlid.com!news.ucdavis.edu!usenet From: Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Disk crash problem...any ideas of what is going wrong? Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 13:25:27 -0800 Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 36 Message-ID: <32B07847.59F4@ucdavis.edu> References: <32AF6751.41C6@ucdavis.edu> <32AFCD6B.41C67EA6@tt.luth.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: mujibur.engr.ucdavis.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.01 9000/712) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32474 Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: > > Michael White wrote: > > > > FreeBSD version: 2.1.5 installed from CD Rom > > Disk: 1G WD Cavier > > IDE controller: DC-4030VL > > CPU: 66Mhz 486DX2 > > > > Sorry to bug everyone, but I am having a problem with keeping my > > BSD machine running. Specifically the problem is that my disk > > keeps having problems. I am running a Western Digital Cavier 1G > > drive on a 486DX2 system with a DC-4030VL IDE controller. The > > problem I seem to have is with the 3rd partition (only one slice). > > The best I can figure is that once the disk gets past half full, > > it starts clobbering inode information. > > > > My filesystems (which are okay) are: > > > > Filesystem 512-blocks used avail cap. > > /dev/wd1a 38974 31806 4052 89% / > > /dev/wd1s1e 793790 265758 464530 36% /usr > > procfs 8 8 0 100% /proc > > > > Question: Do you have dos installed on anouther disk and mount that ? > I ask because if you mount a dos partition bigger then 1022M it can > start trashing your bsd partition > > Bengt-Arne Fjellner I do have a dos/win disk but it is only 500MB and I do not mount it from the BSD side. -- - Mike mdwhite@ucdavis.edu