Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:21:44 -0500 From: Gerry Freymann <lists@interpool.ca> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FSCK question on FreeBSD 5.4R Message-ID: <20070301132144.763879ce.lists@interpool.ca> In-Reply-To: <20070301163912.GB83663@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <841087.71142.qm@web62204.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <20070301101238.7a51585e.lists@interpool.ca> <20070301163912.GB83663@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:39:12 -0500 Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: >On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:12:38AM -0500, Gerry Freymann wrote: > >> I was doing some maintenance on my FreeBSD 5.4R box, and took it down >to > single user mode and ran >> >> fsck -y >> >> I have four partitions on my drive, and the 2nd and 3rd partitions come >up > with errors and say run fsck manually. >> >> When I do: >> >> fsck -y /dev/ad0s1e >> >> there's no difference, it just shows me the errors but doesn't fix 'em. >I > see (NO WRITE) on the partition which I figure is the problem. >> >> How do I get fsck to write the changes necessary? I used to know all >this > when I admin'd a half dozen boxes for about 5 years but 3 years >later with > little to no admin chores anymore I've forgotten. >> >> Thanks for any assistance you might provide. > >Haven't seen that. But I wonder - is the partition mounted? >If you got to single user by rebooting to it, then it should be. >But, if you got there any other way (???) it might not be. I brought it to single user mode by becoming root and doing a shutdown now, and then trying fsck, no go. So then I did a reboot and selected single user mode, tried fsck as indicated above, still wouldn't write the changes. Kinda weird!
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