Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 10:37:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Have crashed, won't travel Message-ID: <19990319103741.A429@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36F13129.5341A849@eboa.com>; from Roelof Osinga on Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 06:00:25PM %2B0100 References: <19990304095813.I441@lemis.com> <36DDEFFD.A4DB4978@eboa.com> <19990304130126.B441@lemis.com> <36DE0352.E99BCB70@eboa.com> <19990316174710.H429@lemis.com> <36EE54A4.8DC53017@eboa.com> <19990317093436.G429@lemis.com> <36EFC56A.ACBFB0A7@eboa.com> <19990318100818.L429@lemis.com> <36F13129.5341A849@eboa.com>
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On Thursday, 18 March 1999 at 18:00:25 +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >>> ... >>> root:/usr/ports/devel/crossgo32/pkg# cat CVS/Entries >>> /COMMENT/1.1.1.1/Thu Mar 27 20:53:42 1997// >>> /DESCR/1.3/Wed Aug 13 09:06:55 1997// >>> /PLIST/1.3/Wed Aug 12 01:55:17 1998//D >>> >>> Looks fine, though the last line in Entries is a tad weird. >> >> It's difficult to tell after what your mailer did with it. It looks >> OK to me the way I've reconstructed it, if that's correct. > > Haven't seen it yet. It's a couple of lines above. It was wrong, though: the last line should have been two: /PLIST/1.3/Wed Aug 12 01:55:17 1998// D > Nowadays I do most through NSC. What's that? > The 4.5 release's reader does funny things previous releases didn't. > Especially with margin enforcement. Netscape is a web browser, not a mailer. It's almost impossible to produce good-looking messages with it. > Other than that, I don't know. Today it looks like: > > root:/usr/ports/devel/crossgo32/CVS# cat Entries > /Makefile/1.5/Fri Feb 20 18:39:46 1998// > D/files//// > D/patches//// > D/pkg//// > > This time I added a space to the end of each line. Maybe that will > prevent NSC from doing its thing. I believe the previous cat was made > before I removed a file and this one after. Guess I'd better remove > this entry as well. This looks fine to me. It's identical to what I have on my system. >> Looks like it's time to learn to use fsdb. I've never used it myself, >> but from the man page you should be able to go in there and remove the >> entries. > > Oh, goodie. But thanks for the reference, wouldn't have found it as > easily. Have never mucked with inode tables myself, either. Good luck :-) One alternative, of course, is to move the entire directory which contains these corrupt entries to a subdirectory of lost+found. That way you won't get the space back (negligible loss), but you'll be able to use the file system. Not nice, but it'll do the trick. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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