Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 12:24:09 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: Craig Nuttall <admin@aus.sh> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with var partition Message-ID: <3B0D35A9.EAC48519@iowna.com> References: <006c01c0e403$600eee80$02a8a8c0@aus.sh>
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I actually came across this just this morning. A partition that, when heavily accessed, resulted in a system panic. Luckikly for me, I was able to newfs the partition and restore the data very easily, and I've been torture testing it for about 2 hours now with now problems (previous torture tests resulted in a panic in less than 15 minutes) I would recommend going to single user mode, doing a dump of the /var parition, newfsing the partition and then restoring - see if that fixes it. -Bill Craig Nuttall wrote: > > the /var partition on my ATA100 HDD has started to cause me some problems. > The server experienced a "dirty" shutdown (power fail) and on reboot got > quite a few fsck errors and the request to run fsck manualy. > > I did that and repaired the problems, now I am seeing various processes > exiting with error code 11 for no apparent reason, also if I run fsck after > 5-10 mins of uptime, I see errors on the var partition. > > seems that as soon as files are written or removed from the var partition, I > then get errors. I can reboot to single user and run fsck to fix the errors > but it would appear that I may be losing data each time I do that. > > softupdates is active on /var, but the symptoms remain even if I disable > softupdates. I am at a loss as to what I need to do here, starting to wonder > if I have to reinstall :-( > > any help would be appreciated, please reply to admin@aus.sh since I am not > subscribed to this list > > Thanks in advance > Craig. > > (happy to provide any other details which may be needed, just dont know how > much or what to provide right now) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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