On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12:47:57AM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > El dom, 18-02-2007 a las 02:48 +0000, David Dawson escribió: > > David Dawson wrote: > > > > > Running Debian Etch on an AMD Athlon 2100+ ECS motherboard with 3 hard > > > disks, the 40 G original hard disk was showing inodes date in future on a > > > user forced fsck. > > > The reason the user forced the fsck was because of a system sluggishness > > > he suspected problems and rebooted with a forced fsck. > > > > > > I have installed etch on another of his hard disks and moved over his home > > > directory to the new disk. > > > > > > Does anyone have an idea what would have put inodes dates in the future on > > > this drive only and would this have caused a disk slowdown? It wouldn't be > > > swap issues, I think, since the machine has 2G of RAM. > > > > > > Thanks > > OOPS, forgot to say that it's running Debian kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 > > -- > > > Usually, this happens when you mount the file-system on the disk from a > live cd . The reason, I think, is that the LiveCD doesn't configure its > date correctly and if you write to the disk, it gets written on the > future (from the installed distro point of view). > > > Please someone correct me if I'm wrong. > > I was just remembering that 'touch' has options to change the date of a file. Maybe you could use 'find' to locate the files that are 'in the future' and then use 'touch' to correct the date. This solution is a GUESS and not tested. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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