Re: Corrupted metakit file
Jean-Claude Wippler <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:13:17 +0200
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Jack Diederich wrote: (good to hear that you found the underlying cause of this problem) > Any suggestions for finding corrupt files? The only thing I can > think of offhand is trying to open them all and killing the process > if it hangs for too long (and then deleting the offending file). I can't think of a straightforward other way to detect corruption. But given the large number of headers in this particular case, I'd actually go through each of them, serialize them to a fresh file to replace the original one - to get rid of accumulated (even if harmless) unused file space. -jcw _____________________________________________ Metakit mailing list - [email protected] http://www.equi4.com/mailman/listinfo/metakit