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Date:      Sun, 2 Jun 1996 19:12:06 -0600
From:      russ@ism.net (Russ Pagenkopf)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackerss@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   file size problems
Message-ID:  <v01530500add7e8099503@[206.58.65.36]>

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Got an odd one here (and I apologize for the cross-posting).

Almost all of the files in my /stand directory have changed size to 802816
(the rest are at 456940) with a creation date of Nov 18 1995. Now knowing
darn well that the system 2.1.0R was clean installed after that date :) and
that I haven't done anything *that* weird (other than installing INN) does
anyone have any ideas as to what might be wrong? It's a real problem when
one blows a 30 meg / partition and can't get it back under 100% :-). This
happened after making a tar+gzip backup of / to a jaz drive. Copying the
files to other partitions, moving the files, and replacing the files with
clean copies changes nothing; they stick at the same size.

Other odd note that may apply here. Whenever I shut the system down
(shutdown now) and then sync, upon reboot it complains that the clean flag
was not set on either the / or /usr partition and fsck fixes it. If I don't
do the sync, it has all kinds of kittens about things not being set right
on the / partition although it appears to fix them and only has the clean
flag fix problem on /usr. Interestingly enough the only thing retained in
dmesg for either partition is

WARNING: / was not properly dismounted

Finally, I'm also running a jaz drive and it also has the same 'clean flag
not set' problem.

System: 2.1.0R, atlantis motherboard, buslogic scsi, ide cdrom, 2 gig
drive, 32 meg ram.

Before I blow this away and rebuild anyone want to take a stab at it?

tia

rus

Russ Pagenkopf  (russ@ism.net)





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