ext2fs lives! (was Re: ext2fs filesystem died)

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From: Tim Benham
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 22:07

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Mike Battersby (mike@starbug.apana.org.au) wrote:
...
: Two things to try. First if you are using e2fsprogs 0.5 then you *MUST*
: upgrade to 0.5a, as 0.5 has some bugs (one of which caused something
: very similar to what you're experiencing on my machine). Secondly, try
: running e2fsck by hand (ie without the -a switch) and answer 'y' to
: everything.

Yes, that seems to be why e2fsck wasn't correctly correcting the
filesystem. Version 0.5a did the trick.  How my filesystem got to be
in such a state is what bothers me now; why so many crashes...

Many thanks to Mike and those who responded by email.
--
		  People who like this sort of thing
       	      will find this the sort of thing they like.
Tim J.Benham                                       bentj93@cs.adfa.oz.au

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From: tim@duh.cs.adfa.oz.au (Tim Benham)
Subject: ext2fs lives! (was Re: ext2fs filesystem died)
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