Re: Circular directory references (was re: ext2 file too big...)
"Chad C.Walstrom" <chewie@wookimus.net> writes:
> Actually, I should give you more background than this. These are not
> symbolic links. This is a screwed up ext2 filesystem. There was either
> a runaway sendmail process or a runaway mailman process that dumped some
> nasties into /var. I'm seeing corruption most likely from a sircam
> virus or some such thing.
No user process can (or at least should be able to) corrupt a
filesystem. The likely causes are hardware failure or a kernel bug.
Look for those.
You might try looking for help on the linux kernel mailing list.
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