super-strange linux behavior
I run a DOS BBS under dosemu, with linux kernel 2.0.32. Occasionally the BBS
corrupts its message database (due to bad design of DOS, poor software etc).
I don't mind that so much on FAT, it's just normal. But today it happened,
and look at this:
/bbs_d/ra$ ls -l msg*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2032293239 Apr 23 14:31 msghdr.bbs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13229056 Apr 23 20:46 msgidx.bbs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 406 Apr 23 10:08 msginfo.bbs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 1 1996 msginfo.fml
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158740480 Apr 23 20:46 msgtoidx.bbs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7566592 Apr 23 10:08 msgtxt.bbs
/bbs_d/ra$
/bbs_d/ra$ df .
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hdb1 689829 688974 0 100% /local
Even Linux is believing the super-large file sizes. One of those files
is 2gb, yet the disk is only 700mb (as df shows). e2fsck didn't find anything
except a few minor block free bits wrong, and afterwards those files are
just as big! The file system for this is e2fs, too.
Ideas?
Hamish
--
Hamish Moffatt, hamish@debian.org, hamish@rising.com.au, hmoffatt@mail.com
Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5
CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: