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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!uwm.edu!news.he.net!viper.inow.com!news1.aplatform.com!nntp.mainstreet.net!news.walltech.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!206.66.12.35!news-in.iadfw.net!usenet From: Bill Harris <billh@airmail.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: FSCK on 1.2 runs out of memory on large FS Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:30:06 -0600 Organization: Internet America Lines: 23 Message-ID: <32E6408E.167EB0E7@airmail.net> References: <32E4F3F5.1CFBAE39@airmail.net> <5c5c7l$etb$1@vishnu.jussieu.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: biz6.iadfw.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE i386) To: Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antifer.ibp.fr> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5222 Manuel BOUYER wrote: > > Bill Harris (billh@airmail.net) wrote: > > I seem to have found a problem with fsck on NetBSD i386 1.2? I don't > > know if it's been reported or not, but it appears to be a memory > > related problem when fsck'ing large filesystems. > > [snip] > > webcache2# fsck -f /dev/rsd1a > > ** /dev/rsd1a > > ** File system is already clean > > cannot alloc 7871362 bytes for lncntp > > webcache2# > > > > You may reach the user limit. Did you try to 'unlimit' (csh) before > running fsck ? > uhh, hmm, I got caught on that one. I'm going to fix my root prompt to something other than '#'. It worked fine. Thanks, Bill