Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 17:44:38 -0700 From: jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "fsck -y /" keeps saying "Disk is still dirty" no matter how many times I run it Message-ID: <569057F6.6060903@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1601081810070.15411@abbf.ynefrvtuareubzr.pbz> References: <569017FF.9060509@rawbw.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1601081810070.15411@abbf.ynefrvtuareubzr.pbz>
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On 01/08/2016 05:15 PM, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2016, Yuri wrote: > >> As a result of the power outage I needed to run fsck on UFS disk with >> soft-updates. >> >> But every time the command 'fsck -y /' says that it corrected a lot >> of problems, but it still leaves the disk dirty. I ran it at least 15 >> times - same result. > > Most likely you have a bad sector on your disk. fsck cannot fix this. > When you write to the disk, hopefully the disk will mark the sector > bad, and basically hide it. Unfortunately, you cannot mount it to > write if it is dirty. You can only newfs it, which means goodbye to > everything since your last backup. After you newfs, you can restore > from your backup. > > >> >> What would be the way to proceed from here? >> >> (I ran fsck before, but it never happened that fsck keeps finding >> problems) >> >> Thank you, >> Yuri Can you boot from a live fbsd cdrom and run fsck on the boot drive? Add the option -f -v Assuming your boot partition and slice is |ada0s1a |fsck -v -f -y /dev/|ada0s1a 2>&1 | tee /tmp/fsck.out| Please provide the file /tmp/fsck.out by uploading it to some sharing website, and provide the url to it. Be sure the drive in question is not mounted.
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