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Re: Here's a simple one.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Zedalis)
Mon Nov 18 07:51:30 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 07:49:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Stephen Zedalis <tintype@zedalis.com>
To: "David L. Martin" <dlmarti@pluto.njcc.com>
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> All lost+found directory's are empty.
> /var/log/messages does not show anything that the bootup didn't.
> At the end of the file system check, it says that it is generating a
> report. I've looked all over...
Hmmm.... I wonder whether it is e2fsck that is generating the report. I
decided to investigate further and unpacked the source to e2fsck. I
could not find any statement that would print the message you saw.
Great thing about linux, you have the source to track down mysteries like
this.
I grepped all the files for the string "print" and "puts". None of the
messages found say anything about printing a report. Grepping on
"report" or "generat" or "creat" find nothing significant as well.
e2fsck creates several temporary "in memory" data structures for its own
use between its 5 passes. But as far as I know none of them are retained.
In fact, the man page refers to the fact that e2fsck is unable to save
its output directly. How could it? It would have to save it to the
damaged filesystem. That is why the author suggests using the script(1)
program to save the output to a known good filesystem.
Do subsequent fsck's report any more errors? If not, the problem was
probably repaired. It is normal to have fsck errors after a system
crash, and anytime the disk is not unmounted properly for that matter.
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