WARNING - Possible Data Corruption - False Alarm - I'm an idiot

John Wendel john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil
Wed Feb 7 17:08:57 UTC 2007


bill perkins wrote:
> John Wendel wrote:
>>
>> I just saw what appears to be a data corruption problem on one of my 
>> boxes. I'm not sure at this point exactly whats happening, but I 
>> thought I'd warn people that there might be a problem.

> 
> I have found that disk usage varies with different sized disks- are the 
> SATA drives considerably larger than the IDE drive you copied from?
> 


Turns out that the files were fine. The size difference came about
because the source directories were much larger than the destination
directories (they had previously held a lot of files that had been
deleted).

Sorry for the noise.

John




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