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From: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: unallocated file problem.
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 02:02:27 GMT
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 I'm pulling in a 8000 group newsfeed on a 4gig brand new Western Digital
EIDE drive. But, when fsck runs nightly, I get huge error files with tons
of messages about unallocated files (all in the spool).
 
 I really don't know why they are getting unallocated. BSDi suggested that
they were open when a process was killed, or whatnot, but thats not true
because INN has never died, nor as innxmit, so they should be all closed
(no one reads them.).

 Does anyone have any suggestions? Could it be because the disk is
constantly (and I mean constantly) writing and it can't keep up with the
I/O's?

 Yes, I know IDE is old and shitty, but unfortunatly there is nothing I can
do about that right now.

 I apprecaite all the help. 





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