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Date:      Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:03:03 -0600
From:      "Chris Cook" <ccook@tcworks.net>
To:        "Ryan Thompson" <ryan@sasknow.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Corrupted File System?
Message-ID:  <003b01c057fd$08d39400$0101a8c0@daddy>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012101423400.84066-100000@ren.sasknow.com>

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Thank you very much for the help...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Thompson" <ryan@sasknow.com>
To: "Chris Cook" <ccook@tcworks.net>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: Corrupted File System?


> Chris Cook wrote to freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG:
>
> > This may be off topic, but I figured it would be a good place to ask...
> > we had one of our servers "lock up" for some reason.  Had to reboot it
> > without shutting down properly and when it came up fsck ran and had some
> > errors.  I told it to fix them all but I've now run fsck about 1000
> > times and it still comes up with errors like the ones below... It cannot
> > seem to fix them, is this serious or do I not have to worry?  I've even
> > deleted the mrtg directory, after replacing the files in that directory
> > from backup fsck will complain again... here is the output:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Even if you tell it to fix the errors, they will come back... THANKS for
> > any help!
>
> Make sure you run ``fsck -p'', and do so in single-user mode.  Unless your
> disk/controller is actually hosed, you should not get such "repeat" errors
> if you follow these guidelines.
>
> Most repeat errors are as a result of a sysadmin running fsck on a
> mounted, live filesystem in multi-user mode.  Don't do that ;-)
>
> - Ryan
>
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