From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 5 17:42:23 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37AEA16A417 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 17:42:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cjk32@cam.ac.uk) Received: from ppsw-4.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw-4.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEFD013C4B0 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 17:42:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cjk32@cam.ac.uk) X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Received: from gw.cjkey.org.uk ([88.97.163.222]:1462 helo=[192.168.2.186]) by ppsw-4.csi.cam.ac.uk (smtp.hermes.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.154]:465) with esmtpsa (PLAIN:cjk32) (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1Ip5Jj-0008Rp-Cw (Exim 4.63) for questions@freebsd.org (return-path ); Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:00:51 +0000 Message-ID: <472F4C16.5020406@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:00:06 +0000 From: Christopher Key User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: fsck and memory filesytems (fsck_mfs: No such file or directory) 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: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:42:23 -0000 Hello, I recently had a powercut to my FreeBSD home server, and I'm now getting the following messages at startup: Starting file system checks: /dev/ad8s1a: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/ad8s1a: clean, 466797 free (2837 frags, 57995 blocks, 0.6% fragmentation) fsck: exec fsck_mfs for md in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or directory fsck: exec fsck_mfs for md in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or directory /dev/ad8s1f: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/ad8s1f: clean, 214294022 free (173430 frags, 26765074 blocks, 0.1% fragmentation) /dev/mirror/gm0s1d: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/mirror/gm0s1d: clean, 16121593 free (1441 frags, 2015019 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) /dev/mirror/gm0s2d: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/mirror/gm0s2d: clean, 63140067 free (4187 frags, 7891985 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) /dev/ad8s1e: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/ad8s1e: clean, 8049657 free (1169 frags, 1006061 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) /dev/mirror/gm0s3d: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/mirror/gm0s3d: clean, 84638779 free (1779 frags, 10579625 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) /dev/ad8s1d: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/ad8s1d: clean, 6625471 free (47 frags, 828178 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM HAD AN UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: mfs: md (/tmp) Unknown error; help! NEnter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: The problem is, I'm sure, is essentially identical to that described in, http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-current@freebsd.org/msg21675.html namely that the entry for the memory filesystem, /tmp, in /etc/fstab is confusing fsck. My /etc/fstab looks like, # cat /etc/fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad8s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad8s1a / ufs rw 1 1 md /tmp mfs rw,-s64m 2 2 /dev/ad8s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad8s1e /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad8s1d /var/tmp ufs rw 3 3 /dev/mirror/gm0s1d /svn ufs rw 2 2 /dev/mirror/gm0s2d /data ufs rw 2 2 /dev/mirror/gm0s3d /music ufs rw 2 2 I can get the system to boot quite happily by carrying on into single user mode and exiting, but I still get the same behaviour next reboot. Does anyone have any suggestions? Regards, Chris