Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!spool.mu.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!manuel!tridge From: tridge@anu.oz.au (Andrew Tridgell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: disk partitioning (was Re: really weird filesystem problem) Message-ID: <1991May3.111458.16787@newshost.anu.edu.au> Date: 3 May 91 11:14:58 GMT References: <1005@aerodec.anu.edu.au> <1991May2.181430.4489@morrow.stanford.edu> Sender: news@newshost.anu.edu.au Organization: Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia Lines: 28 I've now fixed the problem and have given back the loaned disk (It felt good having 1.2Gb but it couldn't last :-) I heartily agree with the poster who said that DEC should supply the disk with sensible partition tables and disktab entries. It is very sloppy to bung in any old partition entries without considerable thought as to the consequences. What I finally did was to chpt the old disk to reduce the g pattition to a multiple of four, then a newfs and a dump/restore from the new (loaned) disk. fsck is now happy with our file system, so I can finally do things remotely. I'm also very glad someone could give me a logical explanation of the problem (MANY thanks to John Kohl), so I can rest in peace, knowing ( I hope :-) ) that it isn't going to jump on me again when I move some more files. Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply, the help was much appreciated. (and thanks to DEC for the loan of the disk - doing all this via tape would have been a real pain) Andrew -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Andrew Tridgell CSLab, Research School of Physical Science tridge@aerodec.anu.edu.au Australian National University =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-