Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:55:06 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Richard Dawes <rdawes@epstais.com> Subject: Re: harddisk problem and/or fsck problem? Message-ID: <200403261155.06808.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20040326180616.GD91553@epstais.com> References: <20040326180616.GD91553@epstais.com>
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On Friday 26 March 2004 10:06 am, Richard Dawes wrote: > Greetings, fellow FreeBSD users! > > Everything so far works fine for me, until I drop into single- > user mode to prep for making world. Even then, it seems OK, > except for this alarming output of "fsck -p": Well, you missed reading something because you are supposed to boot -s into single user mode. Then, you don't have write access and the fsck works. BTW, the whole point of booting into single user mode is to avoid a bad kernel. When you drop into single user mode, you aren't testing the new kernel. Kent > > /dev/da0s1a: NO WRITE ACCESS > /dev/da0s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. > > I run "fsck /dev/da0s1a", and I'm just told of NO WRITE for the > fs, and the phases shown without error. But I *can* write > there -- my / partition. > > OK, FYI -- This happens on 4.9-RELEASE and 5.2.1-RELEASE-i386 > both. I have an IBM UltraStar Ultra160 SCSI disk, model no. > IC35L018UDW210-0 ... Runs on a Tyan S2462 "Thunder K7" dual > Athlon-MP board, using the GENERIC kernel. > > I've run the onboard Adaptec-controller's format and verify > utilities, which I presume run without error, since they just > do their thing without error messages and just say when they're > done. > > I install the above via the "miniinst" CDs, cvsup the lastest > sources, and that's it for usage. But the machine boots and > runs fine otherwise. > > Is this something to really worry about? Is it safe to proceed > with making world? Should I try forcing fsck to do anything? > Or, should I try running fsck having booted from CD? Other > ideas or suggestions? > > Thanks all for any help offered! Cheers, > > -Rich -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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