Re: [9fans] worm problems

[Sam Ducksworth <sam@ducksworth.com>]

russ,

i was able to boot from the install disk and do the following:

dd -if /dev/sdC0 -of /tmp/dump1.dd -skip 1 -count 1

and it wrote the result out to the file without any problems.

i did notice something strange. i mounted the file server on
my cpu server on /n/fs and then cd'ed into that directory and did
and 'lc' it had double entries for every directory. if i went into
one of the directories and did and 'lc' i did not see double entries.
it was only at the root of the mount point.

if it makes it any easier, i don't care about any of the previous dumps.

--sam

On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Russ Cox wrote:

> Can you boot a Plan 9 terminal on the disk
> (or boot the install floppy) and then look
> at the second block on your pseudo-worm?
>
> Also, backups are good.
>
> I had a problem like this once right after I'd
> set up a pseudo-worm and other partition on the
> same disk using the p device.  I never tracked
> it down, but my superblock was the beginning of
> a PostScript file.  The case fan had broken, so
> I think it might have just been heat problems.
>
> Russ
>

--sam