From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 25 05:50:41 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6913616A418 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:50:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from szalbot.homedns.org (lists.lc-words.com [83.19.156.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2863413C45D for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:50:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from www (helo=www) by szalbot.homedns.org with local for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:50:38 +0200 To: Freebsd questions X-PHP-Script: https://poczta.szalbot.homedns.org/index.php for 192.168.11.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:50:38 +0200 From: Zbigniew Szalbot In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <460a65190bb88ed0676417e1033dd160@szalbot.homedns.org> X-Sender: zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: fsck to fix HD problem 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: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:50:41 -0000 Hello, >> so I decided to use fsck to check my HD. I ran it >> in the foreground mode with the -y flag. It gives me the below >> information. My question is - should I worry (it is more a home machine >> than a real server) and if yes, how can I fix the problem? > . . . > > To do anything more than merely report problems > you should drop into single-user mode, unmount > everything except root (hopefully. If it gets angry, > reboot into single-user mode.) and run fsck (as is > or with the -y flag if you feel daring.) on the filesystems > in question. Is the single-user mode necessary. As it is a family machine I know when I am the only one using it. > > As an aside, you might want to figure out why your > machine fell over, so as to possibly avoid this in > the future (such as it is). Lack of UPS and sudden power outage. Thank you! -- Zbigniew Szalbot