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- From: davism@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mik Davis)
- Subject: Re: *CheckMap Error
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.164237.12472@aston.ac.uk>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:42:37 GMT
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- S.Hickinbottom@lut.ac.uk wrote:
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- : I've just started getting an error when I do a *checkmap command - when it seems
- : to have checked the entire map it then says "map inconsistent with directory
- : tree". What's going on? I thought *CheckMap would offer to overwrite the
- : bad map, or is this a different case?
- :
- : Should I be on my knees looking skyward, or what?
-
-
- Hope you're not one for executing the bearer of bad news...
-
- I had this error a while back on an A5000. Seems it's one of those "known
- bugs" in the system. The solution is easy - simply copy all your stuff off the
- drive onto a handy Econet*, re-format the drive and copy the stuff back.
-
- Checkmap does offer to sort out the problem...so long as it can figure out
- what the problem actually is. In this case it gets confused and gives up.
- No, this isn't documented anywhere (the problem, or the fact that checkmap
- will not always offer to help).
-
- BTW: You'll probably find that files have started occupying more space than
- they should as well. Your hard drive will fill up rather quickly from now on
- if the behaviour of the one I had is anything to go by. The effect seems to
- be logarithmic too - the longer you leave it, the worse it gets.
- This has been discussed on here before and I suspect it will be again...
-
- Mik
-
-
- [* for Econet read "tape streamer" or "second drive" or "pile of floppies" as
- appropriate]
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