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Date:      Thu, 14 May 2009 16:02:45 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        Andrew Snow <andrew@modulus.org>
Cc:        Pat Wendorf <dungeons@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: File system corruption
Message-ID:  <4A0C1675.4090609@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <4A0B31A2.9030805@modulus.org>
References:  <2c2c47aa0905121110i6355930bwce3a9c6afb117d4d@mail.gmail.com>	<200905131124.16897.milu@dat.pl>	<2c2c47aa0905131337w4a338386t2407f7df7a398cf7@mail.gmail.com> <4A0B31A2.9030805@modulus.org>

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on 13/05/2009 23:46 Andrew Snow said the following:
> Pat Wendorf wrote:
>> I spoke too soon I guess: A buddy of mine at the hosting provider took
>> down
>> the box and did a fsck -y on the var partition, this seems to have
>> cleaned
>> it up.  It looks like the regular fsck -p could not repair it.
> 
> 
> You may like to put fsck_y_enable="YES" in your /etc/rc.conf, though
> this does not affect the root volume.

This would make fsck -y run on all filesystems (clean, just checked, always ro,
etc) iff fsck -p fails. This can be dangerous too if filesystem state is such that
fsck gets confused.


-- 
Andriy Gapon



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