SUMMARY: fscking not fixing

From: Susan Thielen (thielen@irus.rri.uwo.ca)
Date: Fri Feb 11 1994 - 10:30:53 CST


Well, that problem has been solved. I did a clri of the
offending inode in question, did a fsck of the partition
and all was fixed. No muss, no fuss, no format no newfs..

A very happy ending!!

Thanks to
"Paul E. Begley" <peb@scdipc0.ueci.com>
Adrian Lee <adrian@cs.uq.oz.au>
Dan Stromberg - OAC-DCS <strombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edu>
Dave Mitchell <D.Mitchell@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Ian Ashton - Administrator <I.Ashton@bradford.ac.uk>
Ian MacPhedran <Ian_MacPhedran@engr.usask.ca>
Mike Cross <cross@engfs.med.ge.com>
Mike Raffety <mike_raffety@il.us.swissbank.com>
Tom Reingold <tommy@big.att.com>
aingle@acorn.co.uk (Andy Ingle)
cc_koper@aaf.alcatel.at (Koper Zangocyan)
cfougere@diva.fr (Cathy)
hkatz@nucmed.med.nyu.edu (Henry Katz)
kumeda@tds.com (Andy Kumeda)
louis@andataco.com (Dances on keyboards)
mike@trdlnk.chi.il.us (Michael Sullivan)
vasey@issi.com

Original post
>
>
>I'm having a bit of trouble with a Seagate ST43400N disk.
>There was a problem last week with directory on the disk,
>that when rebooting, a manual fsck had to be done.. It
>didn't really matter about the data on the disk that was
>troubled, so I tried to just discard and not salvage.. But
>in anycase, all of the contents of the directory were put
>into lost+found eventually, and all seemed ok except for the
>following behaviour. If I cd to the directory that is being
>complained about I get
>
>> mars.irus.rri.uwo.ca# cd screen
>> mars.irus.rri.uwo.ca# ls -l
>> . not found
>
>And if I try to cd to it on the machine the disks is on, it
>freezes up.. And I need to reboot..
>On reboot I get the following messages
>
>/dev/rsd1g: DIRECTORY CORRUPTED I=612867 owner=craigj MODE=40775
>/dev/rsd1g: SIZE=10244 MTIME = Feb 3 15:59 1994
>/dev/rsd1g: DIR=/scratch/craigj/screen
>
>ANd the usual message about fscking.. And I do a fsck each time.. but
>it doesn't fix the problem.. Even if I try to reconnect and
>salvage..
>
>Other than newfsing the partition, and restoring it, what else can
>I do to fix the offending inode??
>
>thanks!
>sue
>
>
 
Susan KJ Thielen Application Programmer, System Manager
Imaging Lab, Robarts Research Institute Phone: (519) 663-3833
PO Box 5015, 100 Perth Drive Fax: (519) 663-3789
London, ON N6A 5K8 Canada E-mail: thielen@irus.rri.uwo.ca



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