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A possible fix for 'overlapped extent allocation' errors
Authored by: logray on Mar 17, '04 07:34:46PM

before i update the system with an new version (this time wanting to install 10.3.3 from 10.3.2) i boot from the DVD that came with mac (g5-2x2) and run disk utility. this time it came up with 5 files that had "overlapped extent allocation" errors and it listed a number after it. i typed in the numbers using "find / -inum xxxx" in root/terminal and it came up with the locations. i deleted one that was just a normal file that i had a clean backup of but the other ones were in a "lost+found" folder. here they are:

/lost+found/1502096/httpd.pid
/lost+found/1502096/named.pid
/lost+found/1554557/netinfo_local.pid
/lost+found/1686875/syslog.pid

any idea what the folder is, what these files are (pid?) and if they can be safely deleted.

thanks in advance.
btw, fsck or running disk utility does not fix these errors. and not sure as this mac does not boot 9 if doing target disk mode from a pb in 9 would work and then running disk utility...



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