Hi guys, I'm afraid it's so long ago that I don't remember many details. I've answered below as best I can...
On 12/17/06, Onno Benschop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, thank you for your bug report. > > We've just been trying to reproduce this bug, but couldn't. Is there > anything you can tell us about your computer that might give more > information. For example: > > * Was a specific file, or group of files, involved? It seemed to be a single file. That is, the fsck only complained about that file, and I'm *pretty* sure that I only needed to delete that one file to make the problem go away. > * What names did affected files have? It's listed in the original problem report. > * Were they all in the same directory, what was the name of that directory? Just one file. My *guess* is that it was in the root directory of that partition, but that the partition was mounted somewhere like "/mount/windows_f-drive/" or something like that. > * How big was the partition that contained the files? I don't remember - probably not super huge. This was just one of several partitions residing on my 60 GB laptop hard drive. Almost certainly smaller than 20 GB. > * Which language was the file system? I didn't realize they had languages. I've always told my OS installs that I'm using American English. > * Was the file of a particular size? Don't remember. It wouldn't have been very small, because it was a backup of a bunch of files. It was probably over 10 MB, and maybe even a few GB in size. I don't remember. > * Was the file a Windows .lnk file? No. > * What other symptoms did you notice? None that I remember. > > We realise that we're asking lots of questions, but the bug you reported > has potentially been identified as being part of a problem tucked away > in the internal workings of the operating system and if that is the > case, it may affect many users. No problem. Thanks for looking into it. - Christian > > Thanks, > Stefan and Onno > > -- > fsck.vfat hangs, eats CPU on problematic file > https://launchpad.net/bugs/47215 > -- fsck.vfat hangs, eats CPU on problematic file https://launchpad.net/bugs/47215 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
