Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!demon!news From: brucem@cix.compulink.co.uk (Bruce Mardle) Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent Subject: fsck Message-ID: <1991Jun19.044822.14325@demon.co.uk> Date: 19 Jun 91 04:48:22 GMT Sender: news@demon.co.uk (C-News Owner) Reply-To: Bruce Mardle Organization: Gated to News by demon.co.uk Lines: 25 In article <1991Jun18.042246.4068@netcom.COM> Paul Eastham writes: >Also, A more troubling problem: Approximately twice a week, after booting >up coherent after using DOS, the initial fsck gives me about 20 file system >problems (ie bad free list, doubly ref'd I-numbers, etc) on the root file- >system. I'm at a loss to understand why...I ALWAYS follow the prescribed Ha! I started having that problem after changing my PC to use a SCSI disc. About a fortnight ago fsck started core-dumping. I booted off another partition, downloaded mwcbbs!/usr/spool/uucppublic/download/updates/fsck.Z and ran that. It fixed the disc. I haven't had any problems since then. The fsck I had been using was from the 3.1.0 version and was dated June or July '90. The version from mwcbbs was dated October '90. ______________________________________________________________________________ "And when we travel by Electricity - if I may venture to develop your theory - we shall have leaflets instead of booklets, and the Murder and the Wedding will come on the same page." mwcbbs!algol!bruce, brucem%cix@ukc.ac.uk, +44 983 520293 Wk0800-1600 GMT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~