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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: fsck creates disk errors
Keywords: Foxbase, tty, filters, OOPS
Message-ID: <11998@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 26 Aug 88 20:36:22 GMT
References: <6808@well.UUCP> <269@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> <1988Aug22.213706.29993@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <663@nancy.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <663@nancy.UUCP> las@frith.UUCP (Larry A. Shields {runs Lunapark}) writes:
| 
| I am having the same trouble.  I think it started happening after
| installing CGI and drivers.  I can't get df to report the correct
| number of free blocks in the root file system.  I somehhow fixed
| it once and then it broke again.  The system has had a number of

  I've seen this trying to diddle a mounted file system, but it seems to
work if you do it in maint mode. You can also use the "-rr" (recover
root) flag to write out the corrected superblock and then reboot.

  Sometimes a sync will help, but not all the time.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me