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Re: [MiNT] Questions about minixfs and mintne



Hi Maurits!

> The result of the problem you describe, is that errors like orphaned
> inodes won't be fixed, even though the filesystem check says it does.

Yes, because the partition isn't locked the MinixFS is active. And the 
MinixFS load the inode and block bitmaps at initalization into the RAM 
and hold this sectors resident. So the fsck can fix the bitmaps on disk 
but they are overwritten later from the MinixFS.


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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