From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Feb 8 01:40:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA13059 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 01:40:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmd.de (postix.gmd.de [129.26.8.90]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA13053 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 01:40:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from gozo.gmd.de (gozo) by mail.gmd.de with SMTP id AA26694 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 8 Feb 1996 10:40:01 +0100 Received: by gozo.gmd.de id AA06454 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org); Thu, 8 Feb 1996 10:39:53 +0100 From: "Michael Hohmuth SET.RS" Message-Id: <199602080939.AA06454@gozo.gmd.de> Subject: Re: kern/745 To: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 10:39:51 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199602072347.PAA08671@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Stefan Esser" at Feb 7, 96 03:47:06 pm Reply-To: hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Stefan Esser wrote: > This appears to have been pilot error: Running FSCK on a mounted > file system reported inconsistencies, and "fixing" them made the > system crash later on (not unexpectatly, IMHO). I thought that I had made it clear that I never run `fsck' in update mode when the file system had been mounted r/w; I only run "fsck -n" from /etc/daily. When I detected ill-looking inconsistencies (that is, other than clean flag not set etc.), I re-run `fsck' in single user on r/o-mounted file systems to be sure. BTW, I have been having the same type of problems after upgrading to 2.1.0; it seems like the system sometimes (like twice a month) reassigned non-free blocks to different files, creating lots of DUPs. Michael -- Email: hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de WWW: http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~mh1/