[5055] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Here's a simple one.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David L. Martin)
Mon Nov 18 18:09:03 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 18:02:49 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Martin" <dlmarti@pluto.njcc.com>
To: Stephen Zedalis <tintype@zedalis.com>
cc: Redhat <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Stephen Zedalis wrote:
> 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.
The error was repaired, and I now believe that fsck (the front end)
generated the message when e2fsck returned an error code 1.
Every thing does appear to be working, tonight I am going to try a look
for any corrupt files. Hopefully the only the files that were open at the
time were corrupted.
David L. Martin <dlmarti@pluto.njcc.com>
R&D Software Engineer <dlmarti@accusort.com>
PGP: DB CE B1 D4 51 46 C1 E0 68 7C 61 09 21 03 80 96
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