Date: Sat, 20 Jun 92 22:20:00 PDT From: umminger AT math DOT berkeley DOT edu (Frederick W. Umminger) To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Dear Mr. Delorie, I would like to make a bug report, but I am not sure what information will be most useful to you. What happened is the following - while running a program that I was debugging (not using debug32, just running it with go32), the computer was engaging in incredibly long hard disk accesses when the program reached the constructors I was working on. I can only presume this was due to swapping because the constructors contained no disk io operations. Not knowing when, if ever, the disk accesses were going to end, I was stopping them and the program by warm-booting using control-alt-delete. Control-C wasn't working. After doing this twice, I think, the program terminated the third time during the disk accesses to give an "out of swap space" error ( I don't remember the message precisely). At this point I noticed that the last 16 or so megabytes of free space on my hard drive had been reduced to less than 100 Kbytes. I thought that maybe my warm boots had left enormous swap files in the tmp directory, but after I deleted everything in this directory I still had less than 100 Kbytes free disk space. Later I discovered that I can no longer boot from the hard drive. Otherwise, everything seems fine - I can boot from floppy and then use the hard drive as normal except for the missing megabytes. I am using a generic 486-33 with 4 MB and Thanks to everyone for the advice. chkdsk /F worked wonders; I have all of my megabytes back and can boot again. In fact, I have a lot more megabytes than before! Thanks again! Frederick Umminger