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Hi,
  People who have been building their own kernels may have a few trashed 
inodes on their discs that they will only see if they fsck. At this point 
fsck will normally remove the files etc.

The solution is to run with a kernel with the ffs_inode.c patch and force the
kernel to access the trashed inodes. When the kernel tries to rewrite the
inodes it will patch them thus fixing them

To find out if you have trahsed inodes, try

fsck -n -f /dev/rwd0a

and similarly for other partition. fsck will report that names of files 
that have trashed inodes.

Attached is a simple script that can be used to force the kernel to patch 
these inodes.
To use just

fsck -n -f /dev/rwd0a >/tmp/wd0a
./forceinodepatch /tmp/wd0a

The script will copy each of the files with trashed inodes to /dev/null thus
force the kernel to update the access time and thus the inode will get 
patched when written back to disc.
Subsequent fsck'sshould show that these inodes are now fine.

Any q's then just ask.

Cheers,
				Mark


Mark Brinicombe				amb@physig.ph.kcl.ac.uk
Research Associate			http://www.ph.kcl.ac.uk/~amb/
Department of Physics			tel: 0171 873 2894
King's College London			fax: 0171 873 2716

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