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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!news From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Disk crash problem...any ideas of what is going wrong? Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 10:27:14 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 37 Message-ID: <32B1F462.6505@OntheNet.com.au> References: <32AF6751.41C6@ucdavis.edu> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32535 Michael White wrote: > The best I can figure is that once the disk gets past half full, > it starts clobbering inode information. My guess is a "dud" disk. I had problems with the 3GB Maxtor IDE (the first 2 I got were 'bad', having symptoms just like your's). I suspect that an entire box of them got drop-kicked off the plane. > 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 I tend to not use the slice abstraction terminology (ie. wd1s1e => wd1e) > I have looked at information at startup using newfs & fdisk: > #newfs -N rwd1s1 wd1s1 is the slice, not a UFS partition. This slice (s1) should have multiple partitions (a,b,c,...)! What does your "disklabel wd1" look like? > /dev/rwd1s1: 40960 sectors in 10 cylinders of 1 tracks, > 4096 sectors 20.0 MB in 1 cyl groups (16 c/g, 32.00 MB/g, 7680 i/g) > > Superblock backups (for fsck -b #) at: > 32, > (^- Note: only one backup is listed here). Try booting a DOS disk and running SCANDISK on your drive. I suspect that it will come up with errors! Tony