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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ODT 1.1 AFS loosing disk space w/ BNEWS
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.083338.6151@kithrup.COM>
Date: 15 Jun 91 08:33:38 GMT
References: <1991Jun13.191114.6944@ingres.Ingres.COM>
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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In article <1991Jun13.191114.6944@ingres.Ingres.COM> thomasm@elk.ingres.com (tom markson) writes:
>In order to reclaim this space, I go into Single-user mode, umount the file 
>system,  and fsck it.  Many POSSIBLE FILE SIZE ERRORs appear during this 
>process and the fsck links  lots of files into lost+found.  Next, I mount the 
>file system and rm /u/lost+found/*. I then umount the file system again and 
>repeat the fsck/mount/rm/umount procedure until no more more files are
>connected into lost+found.  

I had a similar problem.  It was the disk, not the filesystem or filesystem
code.  Try backing up the disk, and then remaking the filesystem (including
testing the drive).

I should also point out that SCO runs B News on their 3.2 machines, and
never had a problem like that.  (kithrup runs C News, with dbz instead of
dbx, so that could make a difference, but I doubt it.)

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sef@kithrup.COM  |  I had a bellyache at the time."
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