Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 11:21:54 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: George Vagner <kf7nn@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var bad Message-ID: <19980207112154.64514@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199802061244.GAA00262@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>; from George Vagner on Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 06:44:02AM -0600 References: <199802061244.GAA00262@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>
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On Fri, 6 February 1998 at 6:44:02 -0600, George Vagner wrote: > running 2.2.5-stable > > i keep getting a message when running fsck saying > > unreferenced file I=57401 mode = 100322 > > clear (y,n) i press "y" > > then it gives me free block counts not correct > and a few other errors so i select yes to salvage them > and reboot, run fsck again and same errors pop up. > > i thought i cleared the file and salvaged everything else. > > how do i fix this? Well, you could start by reading replies sent to you. May I presume you're the same person who called himself "User Vagnerlaszlo vagner" last month? How about following up on my suggestions: > On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 09:27:01PM -0600, User Vagnerlaszlo vagner wrote: >> oops i forgot to ssend the info doooooh.. >> >> here is the message i am getting and it doesnt seem to clear. >> >> UNREF FILE I=53761 OWNER=root MODE=100644 >> SIZE=0 MTIME=Jan 28 21:20 1998 >> CLEAR? [yn] n >> >> >> how do i fix this. >> >> typing y to clear doesnt seem to clear it. > > What I see here is an 'n' reply. It *should* go away if you type 'y'. > Is it always the same Inode number? What I see here is a file that > was created only two hours ago, if your time zone is right (USA CST). > > Try this: next time it happens, reply 'y'. Then enter: > > # fsck /var > > I would expect it to no longer complain. > > The other thing to do is to check whether your shutdown works > properly. It's possible that you have a process which isn't stopping > on SIGTERM. Do you get a 'giving up' message before reboot? That > could be the problem. > > Do you know your 'From:' address is screwed up? Greg
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