Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 16:56:55 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Suresh Rao <suresh.rao@nswcc.org.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help requested for FreeBSD site experiencing 'fsck' errors Message-ID: <199611040056.QAA25077@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Nov 1996 11:15:18 PST." <327E40C6.1FFF@nswcc.org.au>
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>We are an organisation running FreeBSD 2.0 for our Web servers. We have >been experiencing errors reported by the 'fsck' utility during a nightly >integrity run for a while, and we would like to correct these errors but >are unsure whether this will cause any instability in the servers. The >nightly run automatically says 'no' to all fsck questions. The servers >appear to be running normally but the number of errors seems to be >increasing. Errors are of types such as 'CLEAN FLAG IS WRONG IN >SUPERBLOCK', 'INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT', 'UNALLOCATED', DIRECTORY >CORRUPTED', 'UNREF FILE', etc. > >We would like any information relating to the correction of 'fsck' >errors, and your advice as to whether it should be safe to say 'yes' to >all of the 'fsck' prompts for corrections. The nightly run of "fsck" was a mistake. Please comment it out in your /etc/daily script. That has been removed in later versions of FreeBSD (which I strongly recommend that you upgrade to - 2.0 was very buggy). Running fsck on an active filesystem will always generate various errors and thus tells you nothing. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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