Hello,

here's a glitch on a Q700
netbsd  temporarily loosing files until reboot.
>
>>cp is acting wacky!

still ...

>>the copy command cp? it never fails that i've got to reboot after
>>copying files, otherwise using the vi editor on a freshly copied file
>>shows the file doesn't exist, but after rebooting there it is! All
>>other directories are fine except the target directory until after
>>rebooting.

...the same problem.

Henry Holtz suggests...
>This shouldn't happen!  Try booting to single-user mode and do a 
>fsck -f.(I think that's right.  The option is to tell it to check the
>fs even if it is marked clean.  You may also need to specify which
>filesystem, e.g. /.)

tried this also; no [y/n] prompts or anything. After reboot the copied
files now appear in target directory.

fsck on read-only filesystem shows some blocks cannot be written to. How
could i test this if that's the reason?

Any help is appreciated!

Brian
bwildasi@csulb.edu
notes: macQ700 external sd2 rootfile system 4.2bsd by mkfs 1.4
HFS at end of harddrive for minimal OS and booter 1.9.6