Help! My fsck is broke

[Ed Garbowski]

Help!

At work we are switching over to an intel 386 running SCO 2.3.1.
We have 2 filesystems /u about 90 meg , and the root system 200+ meg.
fsck runs fine on the /u system.

When using fsck on the root system it starts out fine:        
/dev/root:

** Phase 1 - Checking Blocks and ...

but after about a minute the prompt comes back.  No error messages, and
never entered Phase 2.  I have tried most every fsck option.  No help.

I have read that at installation time if the root system is large that 
divvy will prompt for a /dev/scratch file.  Well I don't think we were
ever prompted for such.  Besides, it sounds like this could be over ridden
with the fsck /dev/root -t [give it a scratch file if not enough memory -
we have 10 meg! ].  I have tried this -t option with a couple of different
files on the /u mounted filesys, and also a floppy mounted filesys.  No help.

The only other reference about this that I have come across is defining 
SCRATCH in /etc/default/boot.  No help.

I dont really want to reinstall the whole deal.  I could change the size
of the /u system and give some space to /dev/scratch if I knew how
much to give it, and an indication of wheter or not this is the problem.

Any ideas much appreciated.  Thanks.

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