Help! My fsck is broke

[Patrick Guelat]

In article <1078 at cs.rit.edu> exg9537%ucss at cs.rit.edu () writes:
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| At work we are switching over to an intel 386 running SCO 2.3.1.
| [....]
| When using fsck on the root system it starts out fine:        
| /dev/root:
| 
| ** Phase 1 - Checking Blocks and ...
| 
| but after about a minute the prompt comes back.  No error messages, and
| never entered Phase 2.  I have tried most every fsck option.  No help.
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OOOPS ! We had the same problem a few weeks ago ! I've tried fsck about
one hundred times and I never saw more than Phase 1 !! It seems, that
it breaks down, must be a really nasty bug. Our solution was to take
an old fsck from a Xenix 2.2.1 286 system and that one worked...
After that, 'fsck -s' with the new fsck didn't break anymore...

	Patrick
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