Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:55:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Luis Rios <lrios@ziplink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File Descriptors on 2.1.5 Machine Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808171254380.26224-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <016301bdc959$6e6f4460$dd900fce@mothership>
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On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Luis Rios wrote: > I recently had a 2.1.5 (upgrading to 2.2.7!) machine reboot due to > problems with a SCSI drive. When I tried to reboot the machine it > froze on fsck of dev sd2 and gave errors of bad file descriptors and > excessive blocks. I did a fsck -y and waited patiently after 20 > minutes for fsck to complete. Fsck managed to clear up lots of erros > and boot fine but I'm getting file descriptor errors when doing ls -la > or anything. What can I do to repair the descriptor tables if so > possible? Will dump and restore restore order to the descriptors? When you get fsck problems, run fsck until it comes back clean. Always. A restore would replace the busted files but you have to clear the busted files first. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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