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Date:      Sun, 15 Jun 1997 19:03:29 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
To:        steve@visint.co.uk (Stephen Roome)
Cc:        helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange things afoot
Message-ID:  <199706151703.TAA00605@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970615155156.15061F-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk> from Stephen Roome at "Jun 15, 97 04:02:00 pm"

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Hi,

> > good hardware tester, and your problems might be hardware caused. So if
> > you have about 250 Mbyte left on your /usr partition give it a try and
> > see what happens.
> 
> I'm going to wipe the disk from the BIOS and see if that finds any errors.
> After that I'll leave it looping make clean and world. (to a typescript!)
> 
> I'll probably also try putting a reboot in at the end of rc.local and then
> leaving it starting up and shutting down for a few hours =), it'll give
> fsck a chance and it should give it a bit of a workout =)

How about changing the flags to fsck in /etc/rc? from `fsck -p' to
`fsck -p -f'. That makes fsck check the filesystems even if they are
`clean', i. e. the clean flag is set.

> 
> Many Thanks for the help.

You are welcome!

Wolfgang
> 
> Steve Roome.
> 
> 
> 




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