On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Gevaerts Frank wrote:
> > The problem is that e2fsck should check for these inconsistences.
> > there is no '5441' uid and no '39578' gid. And there can't be '154, 149'
> > a valid lenght, and dev files (with minors and majors) are only in the
> > /dev/ directory AFAIK. Also, in the permissions field... what is that 't'
> > or 'T'? These problems should be corrected. Even that louzy scandisk
> > does it.
> There is no rule that says files have to be owned by existing users and
> groups. Say you put a disk from another machine in your PC for some
> reason, and the other machine has users that you don't have, are the
> filesystems on this disk suddenly corrupt ??
> Device descriptors are traditionally kept in /dev, but again there is no
> reason you couldn't have some somewhere else.
Yes. You are right. I'd still want like something that
will ask me wether that is an error or not - at least a switch. But
you are right.
BTW: those perissions still look wrong to me. What is 't'
or 'T'?
Raider
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``Liberate tu-temet ex inferis''
