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Date:      Sun, 11 Aug 1996 23:17:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Webster <andrew@fortress.org>
To:        Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Huuuuuuuuuuuge INN history.pag?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960811231557.22799a-100000@guardian.fortress.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960811224945.29535C-100000@zap.io.org>

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On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Brian Tao wrote:

>     This isn't good, is it?
> 
> 243448 -rw-rw-r--  1 news  news         249158785 Aug 11 22:49 history
>      1 -rw-rw-r--  1 news  news               123 Aug 11 22:49 history.dir
>  20696 -rw-rw-r--  1 news  news   140737509515644 Aug 11 22:49 history.pag
> 
> 
>     I know the file really isn't that large, but I presume the EOF
> marker has been blown way out for some reason.  The news server seems
> to be running still, but this sort of thing worries me.  ;-)
> inn-1.4unoff3 (no mmap), 2.2-960501-SNAP.  Anyone else seen this
> before?

Yup, lots of times after the system crashes, even though fsck says 
everything is cool, wierd stuff like this starts popping up here and there.

Do ls -lo to see if any flags have popped up.  This is usually the result 
of disk corruption.

Regards,

Andrew Webster  - andrew@pubnix.net - http://www.pubnix.net
PubNIX Montreal - Connected to the world - Branche au monde
 514-990-5911   - P.O. Box 147, Cote St-Luc, Quebec, H4V 2Y3




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