From: almesber@bernina.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger) Subject: Re: Kernel panic from MSDOS fs Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1993 16:34:31 GMT
In article <1mfed9INN4d5@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> rcopg@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Paul Gortmaker) writes:
> Kernel Panic: fat_free: deleting beyond EOF
>
>. .. caused by a "rm /user/*",
This means that the FS has detected an inconsistency (probably a FAT
corruption). This error is severe, because other files may have already
been damaged or their clusters may just have been marked as "free" in
the FAT.
The "new" MS-DOS FS (currently in alpha test) simply sets the file system
read-only in these cases instead of panicing.
- Werner
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