On 2011-04-01 21.48, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
>> And jumping up and down after a first successful test is not a sound
>> engineering principle either.
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> It turns out that I had extracted into the default firefox download
> location (/home/amit/downloads I forgot exactly where) all kinds of
> files. There was sources for gdb 6.3, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8. GCC 3.3, 3.4.6,
> 4.5 etc, LLVM + Clang 2.8. Still more that I forget. This is a 20 Gb
> fs and I was totally unaware I was abusing my fs so much. The day this
> happened, I had updated src,ports,xenocara,www from cvs. I immediately
> did a plain "fsck" right after this operation. I typed fsck in the
> same window while it was updating ports. On hindsight, I might have
> waited till it had finished writing the cache to disk. The fsck
> proceeded well until it encountered the gazillion files in /home.
I have to ask: From your description I get the impression that you're
fsck'ing mounted file systems, and you seem to be doing this on a more
or less regular basis? Why?
Regards,
/Benny
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