Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 04:35:20 +1000 From: Mikhail Goriachev <mikhailg@webanoide.org> To: Ross Penner <ross.penner@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File System errors Message-ID: <464B4EE8.6050305@webanoide.org> In-Reply-To: <f80199c40705151216p5fea2ef9xc2f96a791768492b@mail.gmail.com> References: <f80199c40705151115m6b070d06t1a7eed370e039119@mail.gmail.com> <20070515185919.GB59938@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <f80199c40705151216p5fea2ef9xc2f96a791768492b@mail.gmail.com>
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Ross Penner wrote: > On 5/15/07, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:15:06PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: >>> I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was >>> worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I >>> looked into the matter and discovered the utility fsck. I ran this as >>> root and I got the following: >> You normally don't have to do this manually. If a filesystem isn't >> cleanly unmounted, it is automatically checked (in the background if >> possible, so it might take a while) on the next boot. >> >> And in that case fsck won't bother you unless it runs into problems it >> can't solve. >> >> Roland >> -- >> R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ >> [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] >> pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) >> > > Thanks for everybodies help. I restarted in single user mode which > allowed me to do the check manually. I'll probably just let the > background check go if it happens again. By default, the background checking doesn't do much. In my experience, every time one of the machines goes down, I have to schedule a manual fsck (fsck -fy) in single user mode. Another option, probably, is this: fsck_y_enable="YES" It sounds scary though. Regards, Mikhail. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: mikhailg@webanoide.org Web: www.webanoide.org
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