Re: strange file corruption

Andre M. Hedrick (hedrick@Astro.Dyer.Vanderbilt.Edu)
Mon, 5 Jul 1999 17:06:12 -0500 (CDT)


On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Thomas Speck wrote:

>
> Hi everyone !
>
> I noticed a strange file corruption on my laptop:
>
> PC-ThS:[~]# ls -l /usr/bin/getopt
> crwxrwS-w- 1 9768 10341 41, 243 Feb 27 1991 /usr/bin/getopt
> PC-ThS:[~]# rm -rf /usr/bin/getopt
> rm: /usr/bin/getopt: Operation not permitted
> PC-ThS:[~]#
>
> I am running kernel 2.2.10 on a Pentium 133 MHz with an IDE-disk:
>
> PC-ThS:[~]# ls /proc/ide/ide0/hda
> cache geometry model smart_values
> capacity identify settings
> driver media smart_thresholds
> PC-ThS:[~]# cat /proc/ide/ide0/hda/*
> 128
> 2818368
> ide-disk version 1.08
> physical 2796/16/63
> logical 699/64/63
> 0c5a 0aec 0000 0010 9d41 027f 003f 0047
> 000c 0000 5837 5631 3630 3637 2020 2020
> 2020 2020 2020 2020 0003 0100 0015 4433
> 2e30 3520 4120 544f 5348 4942 4120 4d4b
> 3134 3033 4d41 5620 2020 2020 2020 2020
> 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 0010
> 0000 0f00 0000 0200 0200 0003 0aec 0010
> 003f 0140 002b 0100 0140 002b 0007 0407
> 0003 0078 0078 0078 0078 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 000e 0000 000b 4000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> disk
> TOSHIBA MK1403MAV
> name value min max
> mode
> ---- ----- --- ---
> ----
> bios_cyl 699 0 65535 rw
> bios_head 64 0 255 rw
> bios_sect 63 0 63 rw
> breada_readahead 4 0 127 rw
> bswap 0 0 1 r
> file_readahead 72 0 2097151 rw
> io_32bit 0 0 3 rw
> keepsettings 0 0 1 rw
> max_kb_per_request 122 1 127 rw
> multcount 0 0 8 rw
> nice1 1 0 1 rw
> nowerr 0 0 1 rw
> pio_mode write-only 0 255 w
> slow 0 0 1 rw
> unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw
> using_dma 0 0 1 rw
> PC-ThS:[~]#
>
> I can't tell you when this modification happened. I haven't even seen
> anything in the logs.
> Do I have to worry about it ? Please, let me know if you need more info.

Yes..........gad, but I have more............(four letter word)!!!!!

Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy

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