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Article #6265Re: Disappearing Disk Space
From: HC Johnson
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1989 19:07
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1989 19:07
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In article <1989Nov29.035921.1943@agate.berkeley.edu>, ladasky@codon3.berkeley.edu (John Ladasky;1021 Solano No. 2;528-8666) writes: > > I just had something terribly unpleasant happen to me... I'm using > Dr T's Copyist to assemble PostScript files of my music. For those of you > > into the process, each of my disks came up with a "file creation or write > error" (I love how specific this message is, too). That was when I checked > the disk space. when a process opens and is writing a file doesn't close it properly the directory info is not correct but the fats are lost. I use fsck (posted here sometime) to recover the space from my hard disk. I guess just reformatting is the best for floppies. Howard C. Johnson ATT Bell Labs att!lzaz!hcj hcj@lzaz.att.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!rutgers!att!dptg!lzaz!hcj From: hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Disappearing Disk Space Summary: file not closed, fats are lost. Message-ID: <871@lzaz.ATT.COM> Date: 29 Nov 89 19:07:44 GMT References: <1989Nov29.035921.1943@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: AT&T ISL Lincroft NJ USA Lines: 19