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Date:      Sun, 18 Jun 1995 19:01:25 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Update: 2.0.5 scrambled filesystems. 
Message-ID:  <199506190201.TAA00928@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jun 95 21:44:05 EDT." <199506190144.VAA02970@rwwa.com> 

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>Problem: scrambled filesystems result from doing:
>``find / -type f -print | xargs cat >/dev/null''
>
>I've tried several things (listed shortly) and keep getting the
>same basic problem (either panics due to scrambled filesystems,
>or the command completes, but a following ``fsck -n'' shows all
>kinds of corruption.  The curruption is still there after a re-boot.
>Often the system isn't able to sync out the final disk blocks (it
>says ``giving up''.  The fsck errors seen are always on either
>the /dos filesystem, the /usr filesystem, or both, but *never*
>on the / (root) filesystem.  Also, booting on dos and running
>scandisk never shows any problems (and running some of the dos
>software whose file are mentioned on the fsck output is ok too).
...
>Ideas?


   Yeah, try not mounting your dos filesystem and see if that makes any
difference.

-DG



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