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From: bouyer@antifer.ibp.fr (Manuel BOUYER)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: FSCK on 1.2 runs out of memory on large FS
Date: 22 Jan 1997 15:37:25 GMT
Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France
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Bill Harris (billh@airmail.net) wrote:
> I seem to have found a problem with fsck on NetBSD i386 1.2? I don't
> know if it's been reported or not, but it appears to be a memory
> related problem when fsck'ing large filesystems.
> [snip]
> webcache2# fsck -f /dev/rsd1a
> ** /dev/rsd1a
> ** File system is already clean
> cannot alloc 7871362 bytes for lncntp
> webcache2# 
> 

You may reach the user limit. Did you try to 'unlimit' (csh) before
running fsck ?

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Manuel Bouyer, MASI, Universite Paris VI.
email: bouyer@masi.ibp.fr
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