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From: johnd@sco.COM (John DuBois)
Subject: Re: Filesystem Error
Date: 6 Feb 2001 03:53:19 GMT
References: <95kef3$kba$1@sshuraab-i-1.production.compuserve.com> 


In article <95kef3$kba$1@sshuraab-i-1.production.compuserve.com>,
Rob W. <robpw@hotmail.com> wrote:
++-------------------+------------+--------+---+-------------+------------+
+| Name              | Type       | New FS | # | First Block | Last Block |
++-------------------+------------+--------+---+-------------+------------+
+| boot              | EAFS       |  no    | 0 |            0|       15359|
+| swap              | NON FS     |  no    | 1 |        15360|      209919|
+| root              | HTFS       |  no    | 2 |       209920|     2000000|
+| u                 | HTFS       |  no    | 3 |      2000001|     8867869|
+|                   | NOT USED   |  no    | 4 |            -|           -|
+|                   | NOT USED   |  no    | 5 |            -|           -|
+| recover           | NON FS     |  no    | 6 |      8867870|     8867879|
+| hd0a              | WHOLE DISK |  no    | 7 |            0|     8875880|
++-------------------+------------+--------+---+-------------+------------+
+
+Mount Dir  Filesystem              blocks      used      free   %used
+/          /dev/root             17315900   1562912  15752988    10%
+/stand     /dev/boot                30720     20320     10400    67%
+/u         /dev/u                13735738   8008014   5727724    59%
+
+
+Do I have to reinstall everything or can it be fixed some other easier way?
+Any recommendations?

Note that df tells you that the size of the root filesystem is 8657950K (it
reports in 1/2K blocks), which is exactly the same as the sum of the sizes of
your root and u divisions as reported by divvy.  The problem with this system
is that after the system was installed, someone reduced the size of the root
division and used that space for the u filesystem.  You can't do that; whatever
data the root filesystem had stored on the space taken away from it is now
inaccessible to it (and at this point, wiped out by the u filesystem).

Your only viable option is to save any important information on your root
filesystem (if you can access it), save the data on your u filesystem, and then
reinstall.  Backups from before the divvy table was modified may help in this
process.  When you reinstall, be sure to allocate space to the u filesystem at
install time (or put it on a separate drive).

        John
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I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam. - Charles Babbage

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