fsck creates disk errors

William E. Davidsen Jr davidsen at steinmetz.ge.com
Sat Aug 27 06:36:22 AEST 1988


In article <663 at nancy.UUCP> las at frith.UUCP (Larry A. Shields {runs Lunapark}) writes:
| 
| I am having the same trouble.  I think it started happening after
| installing CGI and drivers.  I can't get df to report the correct
| number of free blocks in the root file system.  I somehhow fixed
| it once and then it broke again.  The system has had a number of

  I've seen this trying to diddle a mounted file system, but it seems to
work if you do it in maint mode. You can also use the "-rr" (recover
root) flag to write out the corrected superblock and then reboot.

  Sometimes a sync will help, but not all the time.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu at ge-crd.arpa)
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