From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 8 19:58:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C9D16A41F for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:58:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from elon@zwelf.in-dsl.de) Received: from zwelf.in-dsl.de (zwelf.in-dsl.de [217.197.85.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C127243D45 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:58:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from elon@zwelf.in-dsl.de) Received: from elon by zwelf.in-dsl.de with local (Exim 4.20) id 1EDSXs-0000rd-BO; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:58:52 +0000 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 21:58:52 +0200 From: Leon Messner To: Jerahmy Pocott Message-ID: <20050908195852.GB2768@asterix.bsdserved.de> Mail-Followup-To: Jerahmy Pocott , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <79096981-E73E-4389-9F1C-38789E98AE94@optusnet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <79096981-E73E-4389-9F1C-38789E98AE94@optusnet.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck says "UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY" 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, 08 Sep 2005 19:58:55 -0000 On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:05:06PM +1000, Jerahmy Pocott wrote: > Hello everyone, > > After a server lost power unexpectedly (read: someone pulled the plug > out), on reboot > the automatic fsck failed with "UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY" as > the message. Running fsck interactively doesn't seem to be able to > fix it.. > > Every time in phase one it says: > > CANNOT READ: BLK 66322496 > UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY > Any ideas on what I could try to fix this? > You could have a look at tunefs(8) and turn soft updates off for fsck'ing. HTH Leon -- gnupg key ID: 9B820836 & Fingerprint: 6081 8F41 8FEC 0D69 DB98 F014 0FD4 B47D 9B82 0836