Colin Wood wrote:
> 
> Larry E Kollar wrote:
> > 
> > Batching up a few responses -- thanks to all for your suggestions!
> > 
> > Colin:
> > >I've seen this same problem.  There is absolutely _no_ damage involved.
> > 
> > Um, I had several dozen binaries in /usr/bin and /usr/games go sour on
> > me.  I first noticed the problem when I logged into my non-root account
> > and the shell complained about "fortune" -- the executable bits got
> > turned off for about 10-20 consecutive binaries.  When I turned them
> > back on & tried to run any of them, NetBSD would complain about "invalid
> > architecture" or something like that (it had to do with architecture).
> > These executables *did* work until very recently.  It's not only the
> > games; important stuff like telnet is shot too.
> 
> I firmly believe that what you are seeing with this filesystem corruption
> is completely unrelated to lost binaries.  The corrupted binaries indicate
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Sorry, before I confuse everyone further, this should have been:

I firmly believe the corrupted binaries are completely unrelated to the
screwy numbers from 'df'.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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