> > mke2fs -i 1024 /dev/sda13
>
> looks like /dev/sda13 is still mounted on /var/spool/news when typing this, right ?
No. mke2fs would complain about that.
while I did a mke2fs on /dev/sda13 the partition
/dev/sda11 was mounted on /var/spool/news.
The things I reproduced several times.
> that's BAD! never run e2fsck or mke2fs or similar on mouted partitions...
>
> > umount /var/spool/news # formerly /dev/sda11
> > ls /var/spool/news # - empty
> > mount -t ext2 /dev/sda13 /var/spool/news
> > ls /var/spool/news # - shows nearly all of the old
> > # directories; some as files some intact
> >
> > Are not all of the corresponding cache pages invalidated
> > when umounting?
>
> flushed! not invalidated... (you don't want to loose data when unmounting, do you?)
>
>
> Harald
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