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From: hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Disappearing Disk Space
Summary: file not closed, fats are lost.
Message-ID: <871@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Date: 29 Nov 89 19:07:44 GMT
References: <1989Nov29.035921.1943@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: AT&T ISL Lincroft NJ USA
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In article <1989Nov29.035921.1943@agate.berkeley.edu>, ladasky@codon3.berkeley.edu (John Ladasky;1021 Solano No. 2;528-8666) writes:
> 
> 	I just had something terribly unpleasant happen to me... I'm using 
> Dr T's Copyist to assemble PostScript files of my music.  For those of you
> 
> into the process, each of my disks came up with a "file creation or write
> error" (I love how specific this message is, too).  That was when I checked 
> the disk space.
when a process opens and is writing a file doesn't close it properly
the directory info is not correct but the fats are lost.

I use fsck (posted here sometime)  to recover the space from my hard disk.

I guess just reformatting is the best for floppies.

Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
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