"H . J . Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 10:46:00AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
| > "H . J . Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > | I don't know how important it is. I have a damanged partition under
| > | Linux. There are some wild files under /lost+found. All of them are
| > | device files with strange values in st_size and st_blocks. As the
| > | result, du gives some wild numbers on them, something like "216T".
| > | Here is a klude I use. I am not very sure if it is 100% correct.
| >
| > Thanks for the suggestion.
| >
| > Your corrupted files are all device files.
| > What if some had been files or directories?
| > I'm not convinced that patch would be generally useful.
|
| I can live with files or directories.
|
| > Does anyone know if a non-regular, non-directory, non-symlink
| > may have nonzero size st_size?
|
| According to the Unix standard, st_size is only meaningful for
| files.
Ok. I've applied your patch.
Thanks again.
