Re: filesystem corrupted?

In article <1133896783.732330@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Oliver Bandel <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tom Harrington wrote:
> > In article <1133833351.339425@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> >>some days ago I had downloaded too much
> >>and my disk was completely full.
> >>Since then te Preview makes problems.
> >>Sytem error is the message in the
> >>activity viewer.
> >>I may have corrupted my filesystem with
> >>this writing the disk too full?
> >>
> >>Is it possible?
> >
> > It's unlikely. How much space is clear on your disk now?
>
> I also think it's unlikely, but if so, then there must be a different
> reason for the problems.
> I had similar problems with Netscape for many weeks.
> Now netscape runs correct but Preview tilts.
> (80 % CPU capacity and more)
>
> Is Panther unstable in some respects, so that maybe
> some processes are running with such a high load?
> Or are there OS-viruses (well, it's a unix, so it's unlikely).

No, to both questions.

>
> But: What's going on?
>
>
> > Did you clear
> > out some of the stuff you downloaded?
>
>
> Yes, I have now some hundreds MB free.

How many is "some"? You may still be running into trouble because of
lack of space.

> > If you're very close to running
> > out, you may experience problems as a direct result of that, without
> > having anything corrupted.
>
> Well, the process that makes the disk full was scp,
> and as far as I know the OS-X GUI-stuff o Panther
> didn't want the unix tools on the command line
> to do something. E.G. updating the directory entries
> of a File-Opening menue will not be updated fast enough,
> and so new files aren't visible in such menues...
> I heard that Tiger is better in this respect.

Um, no, this is completely untrue. There's no reason not to use
command-line tools on Panther (or any version of Mac OS X that I know
of) if you find them to be convenient.

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