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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-stkh.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!eru.mt.luth.se!newsfeed.luth.se!news.luth.se!news From: Bengt-Arne Fjellner <baf@tt.luth.se> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Disk crash problem...any ideas of what is going wrong? Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:16:27 +0000 Organization: Lulea Technical University Lines: 28 Message-ID: <32AFCD6B.41C67EA6@tt.luth.se> References: <32AF6751.41C6@ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: labb-7.tt.luth.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA i386) To: Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32438 Michael White wrote: > > FreeBSD version: 2.1.5 installed from CD Rom > Disk: 1G WD Cavier > IDE controller: DC-4030VL > CPU: 66Mhz 486DX2 > > Sorry to bug everyone, but I am having a problem with keeping my > BSD machine running. Specifically the problem is that my disk > keeps having problems. I am running a Western Digital Cavier 1G > drive on a 486DX2 system with a DC-4030VL IDE controller. The > problem I seem to have is with the 3rd partition (only one slice). > The best I can figure is that once the disk gets past half full, > it starts clobbering inode information. > > My filesystems (which are okay) are: > > Filesystem 512-blocks used avail cap. > /dev/wd1a 38974 31806 4052 89% / > /dev/wd1s1e 793790 265758 464530 36% /usr > procfs 8 8 0 100% /proc > Question: Do you have dos installed on anouther disk and mount that ? I ask because if you mount a dos partition bigger then 1022M it can start trashing your bsd partition Bengt-Arne Fjellner