From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) Subject: Re: defrag found a problem with my Minix disk -- fsck won't fix it Date: 7 Apr 1993 20:29:27 GMT
> I made a new boot disk and compiled the new defrag0.4
> source, but when I try to defrag my root partition (from
> the floppy, or from the HD with the read only option on)]
> I get the following error:
> Scanning inode 285... Zone nr 50307 > zones
> which makes sense since it's only a 40M minix partition.
This is a known problem with earlier versions of fsck. If an inode
was connected to no directories but was not marked unused then old
versions of fsck failed to spot or correct the problem, and also
ommitted to verify the contents of the inode. defrag, on the other
hand, scans _every_ inode and could come across the error.
This problem was fixed in fsck a few months ago, so any version from
the archives sites will probably be up to date. In particular, I
think that Rick Faith's utilities collection (utilb and utile on most
archive sites) has the most recent version.
Cheers,
Stephen Tweedie.