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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Disk corrupt - task held
Message-ID: <335@boing.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 88 18:21:16 GMT
References: <1657@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> <7416@swan.ulowell.edu> <2115@sugar.UUCP>
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In article <2115@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> Once you mount the disk
>successfully, UNIX will stay up even in the face of *rampant* disk
>corruption (ever try looking at a 35 sector disk with a 36 sector
>filesystem on it).

That's funny when my unix system sun/3.0 tries to free a afree inode
the result is not pleasant. Same thing with free block list.
Or what happens if /etc/init has disappeared?

>-- 
> But guru?

How about 'panic: freeing free inode'

What the amiga needs is an fsck utility that fixes the disk without
you needing to be a filesystem guru and edit the disk it self. The result
from fsck should be a disk that is correct, none of this " copy files
to a new disk and reformat" bs.

>-- Peter da Silva      `-_-'      ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter

-- 
Dale Luck     Boing, Inc.
Although I do contract work for Amiga-LosGatos, my opinions probably
don't represent those of Commodore or its management or its engineers,
but I think the world would be a better place if they did.