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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: What is 'SMALL DISK ERROR' ?
Message-ID: <9910@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 1 Mar 90 14:18:52 GMT
References: <2490.25e7e086@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <2490.25e7e086@esat.kuleuven.ac.be> elsen@esat.kuleuven.ac.be writes:
> 
>             Recently I have been getting the following errorlog entries :
...
> 
>     What kind of action should I undertake with respect to this ?
>     (I am kind of worried since this beasty is the system disk of
> my VAXstation II/GPX (it contains /  and /usr)).I have also noted that
> the same CYLINDER is always involved.
> 
>     What does 'SMALL DISK ERROR' mean ? Does it mean that a correctable
>     ECC error has occurred ?

No, it means that you have a "SMALL DISK" and that you have some kind of
"ERROR" (not obvious from the printout) that probably needs to be addressed.

Try "/etc/uerf -o full -D" to see if you get more information on exactly
what kind of error condition is occuring...
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