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- From: buzmaltb@wcnet.org (Buz Maltby)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Help! Corrupt FIles!
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 03:40:11 GMT
- Organization: Wood County Internet Council
- Message-ID: <4d4l3d$2j5@woody.wcnet.org>
- References: <4cmqp5$dbl@sonic.net> <821299739snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
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- It's also possible (Tho you've probably already checked this ;) that
- you have a variant of the "Stoned" boot sector virus. I recently had
- a couple of GB+ files show up on a 1.44 MB floppy and that's what it
- turned out to be. F-Prot fixed it, no problem.
-
-
- >>Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk> wrote:
-
- >In article <4cmqp5$dbl@sonic.net> greg@sonic.net "Greg Seeger" writes:
-
- >>I am having the following problem and would greatly appreciate any
- >>
- Stuff deleted>>
- >>
- >>Once in a while, two files will become inaccessable. When the
- >>directory is checked the files have become huge, many giga-bytes
- >>in size, on a machine which does not have a drive that large.
-
- >This is possible on systems that support 'sparse' files. On such systems
- >you can typically creare sparse files by seeking beyond the current
- >end of file and writing. Only block that are actually written to are
- >allocated on disk so it is possible to have a file size much larger than
- >the disk size.
-
- >>Thus, I'm assuming that the directory entry for those files
- >>is corrupted.
-
- >That is another possibility.
-
- >>3. This problem only happens with a client using a Novell network. The
- >> program is running on straight DOS, other networks, and even on
- >> Xenix/Unix (re-compiled) and this problem has never appeared.
-
- >A program bug can of course be environment sensitive. Maybe there is a bug
- >in Novell or maybe your program is corrupting unprotected system workspace
- >that Novell happens to be sensitive to.
-
- >>It may be a problem with Novell, or even their particular version
- >>on Novell, but I have no way to test that. (I am a long ways from
- >>the client, and the problem is rare.)
-
- >You don't believe in making things easy! :-)
-
- >>I would GREATLY appreciate any thoughts, hints or ideas. Feel free
- >>to email me if you wish.
-
- Buz Maltby
- buzmaltb@wcnet.org
-
-