File system problems with 386/ix

[Joe Bradley]

I've started having problems creating tar archives of certain parts of
my file system. It crashes and dumps core while in the middle of creating
any archive. I'm running 386/ix v2.0.1.

This made me suspicious about the integrity of my file system, so I manually
invoked fsck. Well, it complained about a few things which I let it fix
(see below). However, when I invoke fsck again, it again complains about
the same things that it just supposedly fixed. Does anybody have any ideas?
Shouldn't these problems be fixed after running fsck?


  /dev/root
  File System: root Volume: disk0

  ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
  ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
  ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
  ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
  FREE INODE COUNT WRONG IN SUPERBLK
  FIX? 
  ** Phase 5 - Check Free List 
  9003 BLK(S) MISSING
  BAD FREE LIST
  SALVAGE? 
  ** Phase 6 - Salvage Free List
  1117 files 22134 blocks 18026 free

  *** ROOT FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***

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G.J. (Joe) Bradley, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332

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