Re: file corruption

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 10:13:49PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:

> no more then 5 - 15 bytes or so.

Sorry, I meant how large are the files ... not by how much are they
shifted.

> what i find most peculiar is how it consistently affected
> /var/log/foo.gz.{1,2} but not {3,4} (or maybe it was {2,3} and {3,4}
> i don't recall now).

How can you tell if a compressed file is shifted 5-15 bytes?  Casual
inspection will fail to decompress the data I would expect.

> however no other .gz file anywhere else in the filesystem was
> corrupted in this manner.

How recently had the logs been rotated before the unclean shutdown
occurred?