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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: fsck problem
Date: 13 Mar 1997 23:48:43 GMT
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busch@elcafe.com wrote:

> Somehow my FreeBSD 2.1.5 machine managed to erase one directory's 
> ".." entry, rendering it not only unusable but also a source for
> possible kernel panic's. fsck seem unable to deal with it, as it
> asks to fix it, then does it (allegedly), and the same thing 
> will come up again at next boot time :-((

That means something is stomping on your disk.  You gotta find it out.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)