david@pyr.gatech.EDU (David Brown) (10/20/89)
HELP! A friend has a serious problem. He's working on a HUGE
project on a Xenix 2.3.2 machine and has the following problem:
He was in the process of restoring a file, and he deleted
it at the same time. It was a large file (4MB), and he did it
by mistake using wildcards. But anyway, he start got the message :
out of inodes
He tried to kill restore, but couldn't, so he did a shutdown. When
the machine came back up, / fscked ok but /u (the filesystem the
restore/delete took place on) gave the following message on phase 1
of fsck:
error on fixed disk cplr=0 dev=1/42 blk=40 cmd=00000020 status=00005940
sector=120902 cyl/hd=235/2
Then got
CANNOT READ: BLOCK 40
He thinks that his latest backup tape is corrupted as well (talk about
a bad day). Should I just take him out and shoot him to put him out of
misery, or is there a prayer that he can get his info back? If so, can
you PLEASE send me the vitals ASAP? His client is growing increasingly
impatient.
Thanks for any info you can provide.
--David Brown
Please respond via E-mail to david@pyr.gatech.edu
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