From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 3 16:16:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA14408 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 16:16:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from cerberos.nswcc.org.au (cerberos.nswcc.org.au [203.9.71.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA14399 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 16:16:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by cerberos.nswcc.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA03115 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 11:16:13 +1100 Received: from pluto.nswcc.org.au(203.9.70.1) by cerberos.nswcc.org.au via smap (V1.3) id sma003111; Mon Nov 4 11:15:48 1996 Received: from nswcc18.nswcc.org.au (nswcc18.nswcc.org.au [203.9.68.130]) by moredun.nswcc.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA22925 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 11:15:47 +1100 Message-ID: <327E40C6.1FFF@nswcc.org.au> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 11:15:18 -0800 From: Suresh Rao Organization: NSW Cancer Council X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help requested for FreeBSD site experiencing 'fsck' errors X-URL: http://www.au.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/support.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We are an organisation running FreeBSD 2.0 for our Web servers. We have been experiencing errors reported by the 'fsck' utility during a nightly integrity run for a while, and we would like to correct these errors but are unsure whether this will cause any instability in the servers. The nightly run automatically says 'no' to all fsck questions. The servers appear to be running normally but the number of errors seems to be increasing. Errors are of types such as 'CLEAN FLAG IS WRONG IN SUPERBLOCK', 'INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT', 'UNALLOCATED', DIRECTORY CORRUPTED', 'UNREF FILE', etc. We would like any information relating to the correction of 'fsck' errors, and your advice as to whether it should be safe to say 'yes' to all of the 'fsck' prompts for corrections. Thanks for any help that you can give.