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From: grieggs@devvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: hard disk bug
Message-ID: <294@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: Sun, 30-Aug-87 19:51:03 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 30 19:51:03 1987
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In article <385@nikhefh.UUCP> t19@nikhefh.UUCP (Geert J v Oldenborgh) writes:
>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).  

This sort of thing will happen when the system crashes while a file or
files is open in write mode.  There is not a lot you can do about it
expect back up and restore the files, as the FAT is in an un-predictable
and potentially in-consistent state.

_john
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