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From: jsb@panix.uucp (J. S. B'ach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: man
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.130005.3722@panix.uucp>
Date: 16 Oct 90 13:00:05 GMT
References: <8991@helios.TAMU.EDU> <3289@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Panix, NYC
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In article <3289@idunno.Princeton.EDU> marcelo@sparcwood.Princeton.EDU (Marcelo A. Gallardo) writes:
)
)Hello everyone -
)
)     I have a small question. I have recently set up AUX 2.0 to use my
)SyQuest drive. In reading through the AUX manuals, it says that I should
)use newfs to create the file system, because that is what AUX prefers.
)Fine, that's what I did. 
)
)     I created a directory "users1" where it is currently being mounted.
)As root, I have no problems accessing it and using it. As anyone else, I
)have a problem with "pwd". It gives me an error saying it can't open.
)The exact error is "pwd: getwd: can't open". In checking the man pages
)for pwd, it says that an error of "can not open" means that there is
)probably something wrong with the file system, but when chacked with
)fsck, I get no errors or problems. I'm a little stumped here, as I would
)like, as a normal user, to see what directory I'm working in. Any
)suggestions?

The message is can't open ., '.' being the directory name.  I posted
this problem to this group and got no replies but have since discovered
the following:  
1) The problem only occurs on directories with inode numbers > 16 bits
   (or with ancestors with big i-numbers)  Try ls -i and see if this
   is true for you.

2) The fix involves recompilation.  If you can't recompile and you only
   have the problem with users1, make a new users 1 with a smaller
   i-number.
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