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Date:      Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:06:56 +0000
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Severe problems with softupdates.
Message-ID:  <19991112150655.A76708@florence.pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <19991111221412.46739@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
References:  <19991111201148.A5748@florence.pavilion.net> <19991111221412.46739@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>

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On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 10:14:12PM -0500, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> > Also if anyone knows how to recover from it I'd be very grateful to know.
> > My /usr partition is uncleanable (although I can 'mount -f' it!! nasty!!).
> 
> Hmm.  I suppose the answer is still "one error at a time".  There are
> plenty of bugs in fsck, and it's quite possible one or more of them
> are ganging up with your already damaged file system.
> 

I got it all back in the end, but it involve rolling up my sleaves and 'clri'ing
and inteligent use of 'n' at 'RECONNECT?' messages.  Fsck should have done a better
job in my opinion, and it will probably end up on my plate to fix it.

Joe

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