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Re: [leafnode-list] Perhaps slightly OT, but a leafnode



clemens fischer schrieb am Dienstag, den 31. Dezember 2002:

> > anders@newsbox:~> df -i /var
> > Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
> > /dev/hdd5            4294967295       0 4294967295    0% /var
> 
> there's definitely something wrong here.  if you have something on

No, that's a file system that does not have a distinct inode limit (such
as Linux' ext2fs/ext3fs or BSD/Solaris ffs/ufs), but one that allocates
space for file names dynamically, such as Linux' reiserfs. Nothing wrong
here. The figures you see happen to be the 32-bit 2's complement of 1 or
a 32-bit ULONG_MAX, 2^32-1.

> first try to google for, say "<your-operating-system>
> <your-filesystem-type>", vary by disk-drive-make-and-model etc.  often
> you should be able to hear "funny noises" if it's the disk hardware.

ReiserFS corruption can also wreak havoc. The best guess is obtained by
using a recent and recommended version of reiserfsck such as 3.6.4 and
check the file system. If the drive has troubles reading a block because
the HDD is failing, dmesg will tell.

ReiserFS seems not to recover very gracefully from unreadable meta data
blocks...

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