Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 13:16:38 -0600 From: "Ross Penner" <ross.penner@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File System errors Message-ID: <f80199c40705151216p5fea2ef9xc2f96a791768492b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070515185919.GB59938@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <f80199c40705151115m6b070d06t1a7eed370e039119@mail.gmail.com> <20070515185919.GB59938@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On 5/15/07, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > 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. > > And in that case fsck won't bother you unless it runs into problems it > can't solve. > > Roland > -- > 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) > Thanks for everybodies help. I restarted in single user mode which allowed me to do the check manually. I'll probably just let the background check go if it happens again.
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