From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 25 03:35:30 2005 Return-Path: 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 7FD2016A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:35:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14FA443D5D for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:35:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j1P3ZTMB044094; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:35:29 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:35:29 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: "T.F. Cheng" Message-ID: <20050225033528.GF60363@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050225032032.GE60363@dan.emsphone.com> <20050225032917.26920.qmail@web51010.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050225032917.26920.qmail@web51010.mail.yahoo.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: FreeBSD cc: Piter Subject: Re: Directory not empty X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:35:30 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 25), T.F. Cheng said: > man, you are right, I now recall there was a crash > during the last portupgrade. And there is " > /dev/ad0s1f: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN > fsck MANUALLY." in my /var/log. > Guess the mystery is solved. > Then why do I have to reboot first then run bgfsck? > Can I run this myself without rebooting? Actually running a 2nd bgfsck probably won't work, since it'll just hit the same problem. A regular fsck has to be run on a dismounted volume, and booting single-user is the easiest way of doing that. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com