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  From: Daryl Tester <dt@picknowl.com.au>
  To  : philhutton@bigfoot.com
  Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:18:16 +0930

Re: Filesystem Wierdness

Phil Hutton wrote:

> The machine is a proxy server running squid, and the partition with
> problems is the main cache partition.

I've seen squid screw file systems before, and I think this is due to
the amount of disk activity that squid generates (especially if you've
had an "unsheduled" stoppage), as it's difficult to corrupt a filesystem
from the application level.  As you have the cache sitting on a seperate
partition, I think you'd be better off mkfs'ing the partition and re-
initialising it from scratch rather than fsck'ing it.

Before you do, just try running the following command for me:

   fsck /path/to/squid_cache ! -type d -exec cat {} > /dev/null \;

and tell us what that returns.


Regards,
  Daryl Tester

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