From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 13:40:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E16137B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:40:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 685D143E65 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:40:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) id g9MKeiE2085475; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:40:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:40:43 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Pascal Giannakakis Cc: chip.wiegand@simrad.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uh-oh... fsck can't repair my files-partition! Message-ID: <20021022204043.GA81781@dan.emsphone.com> References: <00dd01c27a0a$f1607f90$0200a8c0@capm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00dd01c27a0a$f1607f90$0200a8c0@capm> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 22), Pascal Giannakakis said: > > Howabout answering these questions with 'yes' instead of 'no'? That > > always works for me. In fact, I have a hard drive on it's last > > legs, the other day it apparently crashed, I hard-reset the > > computer, ran fsck -y on that disk and finally after running this > > about 8 times it finally was marked clean. > > LOL > > There is no prompt to type y or n, and it is the same with fsck -y. > Sorry for not mentioning this. Meanwhile i got the tip to try... Dismount the volume before running fsck. The (NO WRITE) message means that the filesystem was in use or otherwise read-only. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message