From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 16 02:19:28 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 19B1C16A402 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 02:19:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0A6513C457 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 02:19:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4E3BCN2002056; Sun, 13 May 2007 20:11:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l4E3BCcm002055; Sun, 13 May 2007 20:11:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 20:11:11 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Daniel Molina Wegener Message-ID: <20070514031111.GC1304@thought.org> References: <40751.64.117.137.69.1179254999.squirrel@webmail.ifxnw.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <40751.64.117.137.69.1179254999.squirrel@webmail.ifxnw.cl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: Ross Penner , 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: Wed, 16 May 2007 02:19:28 -0000 On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 02:49:59PM -0400, Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: > > El Mar, 15 de Mayo de 2007, 14:15, Ross Penner escribió: > > 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: > > [[ ... ]] > > > > ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups > > FREE BLK COUNT(S) WRONG IN SUPERBLK > > SALVAGE? no > > > > SUMMARY INFORMATION BAD > > SALVAGE? no > > > > 18514 files, 70825 used, 905728 free (6688 frags, 112380 blocks, 0.7% > > fragmentation) > > > > > > It seems to my unexperienced eye that their are problems in some of > > the filesystems, but they arn't being resolved. I tried running fsck > > -y and nothing changed. What am I doing wrong? How can I resolve > > these issues? Thanks for any help you can offer. > > [SNIP] > > I ran in to similar snafus with mmy DNS server, very recently. I booted into single-user ("press 4") and got rid of tons of junk left in /var/tmp. Then I did a mount -a and and fsck -y. If fsck were any more useful, it would be able to cure death! ..Or at least hangovers:-) goood luck, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix