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From: vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden)
X-Organisation: Faculty of Mathematics & Computer Science
University of Amsterdam
Kruislaan 403
NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
X-Phone: +31 20 525 7463
X-Telex: 10262 hef nl
X-Fax: +31 20 525 7490
To: current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
Subject: Repeatedly corrupted /dev
Sender: owner-current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
About a week ago, my /dev directory got corrupted (NetBSD 1.0-alpha,
386/40, 2 IDE disks). It took me a while to repair that, booting
from 0.9 floppies, etc. At first, I thought that it might have been
the fdesc filesystem, since that was union mounted on top of /dev.
So I removed that from /etc/fstab. However, it happened again today,
only less severe (my system is NetBSD 1.0-beta as of July 31st by now).
The symptoms are, that just 'ls' will not show certain files, and wildcard
expansion will also not find them. However, 'ls -al' reports:
<special_name>: Bad file descriptor
for all the device nodes that have been damaged. The only thing that
works is 'rm -rf /dev' and then a 'MAKEDEV all'.
I wonder what this could be. I am a little tight on diskspace in the
root partition:
/dev/wd0a 7660 7087 -193 103% /
..but I doubt that that has anything to do with it. All my filesystems
are 'old' filesystems (but I am not going to upgrade them until there
are 1.0 boot floppies, just to be safe)
- Frank