From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 15 18:50:04 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C1C16A402 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 18:50:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A8EF13C45A for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 18:50:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay5.apple.com (relay5.apple.com [17.128.113.35]) by mail-out3.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A6014A604; Tue, 15 May 2007 11:49:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay5.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay5.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id A657929C023; Tue, 15 May 2007 11:50:03 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807123-a008dbb0000065b6-cc-464a00db1e71 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay5.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 9682E30400B; Tue, 15 May 2007 11:50:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <94B45DE1-D76B-4230-A043-247DB7044BA2@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:50:02 -0700 To: Ross Penner X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File System errors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 18:50:04 -0000 On May 15, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Ross Penner wrote: [ ... about fsck... ] > It seems to my unexperienced eye that their are problems in some of > the filesystems, but they arn't being resolved. I tried running fsck > -y and nothing changed. What am I doing wrong? How can I resolve > these issues? Thanks for any help you can offer. You can only (usefully) run fsck on unmounted filesystems. Normally, if a filesystem has problems and cannot be mounted, the system will not enter multi-user mode and will require the operator to run it from single-user mode. You can also boot off of a CD and fsck the hard drive that way. Note that you generally need to answer "yes" to the repair questions fsck asks of you.... -- -Chuck