From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 18:21:45 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE9EF16A404 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 18:21:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@interpool.ca) Received: from simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (simmts8.bellnexxia.net [206.47.199.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5829D13C4B5 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 18:21:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@interpool.ca) Received: from localhost ([69.158.191.23]) by simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with SMTP id <20070301182144.YQYN1663.simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@localhost>; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:21:44 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:21:44 -0500 From: Gerry Freymann To: Jerry McAllister 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> Organization: Interpool Development www.interpool.ca X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FSCK question on FreeBSD 5.4R 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, 01 Mar 2007 18:21:45 -0000 On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:39:12 -0500 Jerry McAllister 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!