disk partitioning (was Re: really weird filesystem problem)

[Andrew Tridgell]

I've now fixed the problem and have given back the loaned disk (It felt
good having 1.2Gb but it couldn't last :-)

I heartily agree with the poster who said that DEC should supply the
disk with sensible partition tables and disktab entries. It is very
sloppy to bung in any old partition entries without considerable thought
as to the consequences.

What I finally did was to chpt the old disk to reduce the g pattition to
a multiple of four, then a newfs and a dump/restore from the new
(loaned) disk. fsck is now happy with our file system, so I can finally
do things remotely. I'm also very glad someone could give me a logical
explanation of the problem (MANY thanks to John Kohl), so I can rest in
peace, knowing ( I hope :-) ) that it isn't going to jump on me again
when I move some more files.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply, the help was much
appreciated. (and thanks to DEC for the loan of the disk - doing all
this via tape would have been a real pain)

Andrew


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Andrew Tridgell                 CSLab, Research School of Physical Science
tridge at aerodec.anu.edu.au       Australian National University
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