problems with fsck and 5.3

[Felipe Garcia]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:

it was a standrad 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE  on i386.. I gave up 
recreated the fs and restored from backup...

/f

>Felipe Garcia <felipe at garcia-lind.com> writes:
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>>fsck fails, is there any way to save this fs.. force it to be marked
>>ok or is there a fix for fsck (tired with the lastest version out of
>>cvs does the same)
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>>** /dev/amrd1e (NO WRITE)
>>** Last Mounted on /usr/local/media
>>** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
>>INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=6526350 (180224 should be 113760)
>>CORRECT? no
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>>INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=6526354 (83552 should be 65984)
>>CORRECT? no
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>>INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=6526356 (81504 should be 65984)
>>CORRECT? no
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>>fsck_ffs: cannot alloc 3400404768 bytes for inoinfo
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>That's a huge amount of memory, all right.  A quick look at the code
>makes me think that it might be a word-size error; are you running on
>a 64-bit platform by any chance?
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>This is probably worth a PR, and definitely worth a message to the
>filesystem experts. 
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