fsck and inodes?
Bruce L. Stewart
bruce at chumley.UUCP
Thu Feb 7 02:47:35 AEST 1991
In article <FmyRw4w161w at nstar.rn.com> tbissett at nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) writes:
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>Bottom line: recently I get a message from fsck whe I boot into xenix and
>check the file systems. It says "POSSIBLE FILE SIZE ERROR I=1993". I've
>tried to RTFM for a week and still haven't a clue. How can I identify the
>possibly suspect file? I'd like to delete it and replace it if necessary
>from backup rather than reload the entire system. Rebuilding the system is
>so tedious :-(
1. man ncheck.
2. ncheck -i 1993 /dev/root (or whichever filesystem you wish; if all
filesystems are mounted, ncheck -i 1993 will check each one for inode 1993
and report the corresponding file.
Hope this helps.
P.S. The fsck message is often nothing to worry about. Large database files
can generate this message; fsck is just alerting you to a possible
problem, not positively identifying one. Checking it out is always the
right approach.
-bruce stewart
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