From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 15 18:59:21 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F084C16A400 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 18:59:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C9C013C455 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 18:59:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4FIxJdK014800; Tue, 15 May 2007 20:59:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A07A4B82B; Tue, 15 May 2007 20:59:19 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 20:59:19 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Ross Penner Message-ID: <20070515185919.GB59938@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Ross Penner , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="i9LlY+UWpKt15+FH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File System errors 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: Tue, 15 May 2007 18:59:22 -0000 --i9LlY+UWpKt15+FH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:15:06PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: > I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was > worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I > looked into the matter and discovered the utility fsck. I ran this as > root and I got the following: You normally don't have to do this manually. If a filesystem isn't cleanly unmounted, it is automatically checked (in the background if possible, so it might take a while) on the next boot.=20 And in that case fsck won't bother you unless it runs into problems it can't solve. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --i9LlY+UWpKt15+FH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGSgMHEnfvsMMhpyURArmgAJwPeVbk1XkfKXxaL1cxfViXvrE2sACfZYmT 9ArGZnA3u5ufcnYNJXhdSlI= =f0Rp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --i9LlY+UWpKt15+FH--