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From: wolman@crl.dec.com (Alec Wolman)
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Subject: Re: really weird filesystem problem
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Date: 1 May 91 14:06:20 GMT
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In article <1005@aerodec.anu.edu.au> tridge@aerodec.anu.edu.au (Andrew Tridgell) writes:
>I have recently struck a really weird file system problem under Ultrix
>4.0 on a DS3100. The root of the problem was a "CANNOT READ BLK :
>567664" reported from fsck. This prevented unattended rebooting as a

Don't run fsck on the block device (eg /dev/rz1g), run it only on the 
raw device (eg /dev/rrz1g).  Your problem will then go away.  There
is nothing wrong with the disk (at least as far as fsck is concerned).

Alec