From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 16:41:50 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 1E0EE16A400 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:41:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2BC413C48D for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:41:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l21GdDR8083838; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:39:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l21GdCai083837; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:39:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:39:12 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister To: Gerry Freymann Message-ID: <20070301163912.GB83663@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <841087.71142.qm@web62204.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <20070301101238.7a51585e.lists@interpool.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070301101238.7a51585e.lists@interpool.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FSCK question on FreeBSD 5.4R 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: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:41:50 -0000 On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:12:38AM -0500, Gerry Freymann wrote: > I was doing some maintenance on my FreeBSD 5.4R box, and took it down to > single user mode and ran > > fsck -y > > I have four partitions on my drive, and the 2nd and 3rd partitions come up > with errors and say run fsck manually. > > When I do: > > fsck -y /dev/ad0s1e > > there's no difference, it just shows me the errors but doesn't fix 'em. I > see (NO WRITE) on the partition which I figure is the problem. > > How do I get fsck to write the changes necessary? I used to know all this > when I admin'd a half dozen boxes for about 5 years but 3 years later with > little to no admin chores anymore I've forgotten. > > Thanks for any assistance you might provide. Haven't seen that. But I wonder - is the partition mounted? If you got to single user by rebooting to it, then it should be. But, if you got there any other way (???) it might not be. Just a shot in the dark, ////jerry > > -gerry > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"