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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 4.3 BSD VAX 11/750 does not seem to sync its disks.
Message-ID: <10900@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 88 08:28:07 GMT
References: <271@usfvax1.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Lines: 14
Keywords: Sync, In core inodes, etc.

This was posted on 1 April, but on the off chance it was serious, here
is an answer:

In article <271@usfvax1.UUCP> brankley@usfvax1.UUCP (Bob Brankley) writes:
>I have been having a pretty wild problem on my VAX 11/750 running 4.3
>BSD ....  I originally found the problem when my nightly "fsck" of the
>file system detected multiple UNREFerenced files in the partition
>containing my user files(/dev/ra0g).

You cannot run fsck on an active file system.  Among other things,
it should not be necessary.  Stop doing it.
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