On Friday, February 8, 2002, at 08:58 , Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > Running debugfs on a live filesystem is dangerous and can show > misleading information --- there is no cache coherency between > debugfs's buffer-cache view of the disk and the filesystem's internal > inode and directory caches. If you've already populated the > buffer-cache view by running fsck, then it's entirely possible for > debugfs to be viewing that old copy even after the fs has modified the > inodes concerned, so that debugfs will see inconsistent data. You > need to forcibly flush the partition's buffer cache to get around > that. The fs wasn't mounted. I booted from a CD. Though, that output was right after I fscked. I'll boot from CD tonight or this weekend, get fresh output and email it out. Unless its to late and not worth it? -- ===================================================================== Mohammad A. Haque http://www.haque.net/ mhaque@haque.net "Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Developer/Project Lead Don't drink and derive." --Unknown http://www.themes.org/ batmanppc@themes.org =====================================================================
