I sent this to the debian-sparc list ... but thought it might be worth copying to here too ... tks
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:51:54 +0800 (WST) From: Andrew McRobert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: fsck for UFS?? hi all One of the old Sun boxes here (running Solaris 2.6) [EMAIL PROTECTED] itself recently ... though I've managed to get a Debian base system running off one of the unused partitions and have mounted the Sun's root partition with the following command: mount -t ufs -o ufstype=sun /dev/sda1 /temp/sda1 The system mounts ok, though with a couple of errors ... when I list the contents of "/temp/sda1" I get the following listing: "VFS-fs error (device 08:01): ufs_readdir: bad entry in directory #2, sized 512: i node out of bounds - offset=56, inode=8960, reclen=12, namelen=3 total 8 drwx------ 2 root root 8192 Dec 18 1997 lost+found ?--------- 0 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 usr I was wondering if anyone knew what could cause this, or if there's a way to fix the inode errors. I was hoping someone may know the name of an "fsck" type utility for Solaris partitions?? thanks Andrew McRobert