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From: t19@nikhefh.UUCP (Geert J v Oldenborgh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: hard disk bug
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Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 10:56:17 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 26 10:56:17 1987
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Yet another weird effect.  One of the partitions on our hard disk 
suddenly appeared full, "df" and the desktop "show info" gave 5.99 out 
of 6 Mb used.  "du", however, only found 3.5 Mb to be accounted for (du 
does not count directories, so a small discrepancy is to be expected).  
We next moved all of the files on this partition to another one.  2.5 Mb 
was still occupied...   It looked as if the area reserved for removed 
files was sometimes not cleared properly in the FAT.

Zeroing the partition solved the problem, but does anybody have any idea 
what may have happened?  Schoonschip, our algebraic manipulation 
package, may have something to do with it as the only other hard-disk 
owner which we know to have encountered the same problem also uses it.

                                            Geert Jan van Oldenborgh.