Subject: Re: disappearing files until reboot
To: None <bwildasi@csulb.edu, port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/06/1997 11:47:47
At 6:34 PM 6/6/97, brian wildasinn wrote:
>Hi,
>
>cp is acting wacky!
>
>the copy command cp? it never fails that i've got to reboot after
>copying files, otherwise using the vi editor on a freshly copied file
>shows the file doesn't exist, but after rebooting there it is! All other
>directories are fine except the target directory until after rebooting.
This shouldn't happen! Try booting to single-user mode and do a fsck -f.
(I think that's right. The option is to tell it to check the fs even if it
is marked clean. You may also need to specify which filesystem, e.g. /.)
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