[7581] in Athena Bugs
ispell/quota interaction
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kevles@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri May 17 18:50:32 1991
From: kevles@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 17 May 91 18:49:57 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I got this from an OLC log. (For reference, it's oops #2253.)
[Fri 17-May-91 5:36pm]
Topic: operations
Question:
Help!!! Two chapters of my thesis are no longer accessible. My
backups and recent hard copies are out of date, so I really
need them!!!
they are in my home directory ("bayardo" on aphrodite) in the director
y thesis_flamage/thesis, the files
are chap7.tex and chap8.tex.
I can't seem to get at them anymore!!!!
can you please help?
Machine info:
Processor: DECstation 3100
Display : Monochrome DECstation
Memory : 0xc31000 user; 0x1000000 (16 M) total
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*** Reply from consultant
[Fri 17-May-91 5:40pm]
Hi.. it looks to me like those files are there, it's just that they
are zero-length.....does it look that way to you, too?
(User agreed)...
*** Reply from consultant
....you somehow have erased the
contents of these files.
*** Reply from user
[Fri 17-May-91 5:42pm]
When I type "more abstract.tex" it says something like
"fixed up unalighned data access for pid blah blah blah..."
(Consultant had to leave ...)
*** Reply from user
[Fri 17-May-91 6:12pm]
I found out what was wrong:
ispell creates backups of all files it checks..
I spell checked all chapters of my thesis, and it went over quota
without telling me.
INstead of notifying me that I was over quota, it simply mangled a bunch of
files. Luckily the ispell backups were in tact.
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End of log extracts. If you want any further information, you'll have
to contact the user directly. I'm also sending mail to the user, so he
may send in further information on his own.
Sorry I can't be more complete.
--Beth
