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From: rbickers@gemini.intercenter.net (Ron Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI v2.0.1 with distribution innd  -> filesytem problems in daily report
Date: 10 Nov 1995 15:27:52 GMT
Organization: The Internet Center - Raleigh, NC
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Randy Moore (ramoore@atlantech.net) wrote:
: I am running the INN version that comes with BSDI v2.0.1 
: (does anyone know for sure the version number of innd?) and 
: the daily report created by /etc/daily shows many file system 
: errors (daily reports run about 100 kbytes).  If I dismount 
: these files systems and manually run fsck, it shows no 
: problems.

: My solution has been to disable the daily run of fsck.

: Has anyone else had this "problem" and what possible problems 
: am I causing by not running fsck nightly?

: Thanks for any info or suggestions.

: - Randy Moore

Yes, I noticed the same thing.  I think I had the daily running at
the same time news.daily was running so a lot of the drive was changing
while fsck was running.  I don't know what the best solution is, but make
sure they don't run at the same time at least.

Ron.