Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 10:31:26 -0500 From: Anthony M. Agelastos <iqgrande@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! Hard disk problems Message-ID: <E508C917-06FF-442D-B1F0-8A0C9247A346@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <DCAAE8DA-974D-403A-96FE-6440653EA0C2@gmail.com> References: <DCAAE8DA-974D-403A-96FE-6440653EA0C2@gmail.com>
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On Jan 1, 2006, at 11:28 PM, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: > Hello all, > > In doing some routine items on my FreeBSD box, it started behaving > oddly. I rebooted and to my surprise, I started receiving many > messages displaying information regarding that /usr has issues. It > puts me directly into single user mode and tells me to run fsck > manually. When I run fsck all by itself, here is what it tells me: > > ** /dev/ad0s1f > ** Last Mounted on /usr > ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes > UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=496000 > UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY > > CLEAR? [yn] > > This is the first time that I have ever run fsck and I have no idea > what this message means or what the best course of action on CLEAR > to take. Any input at all would be greatly appreciated (FreeBSD 6.0- > STABLE if it helps). Thank you all so much for your assistance. > > -Anthony > > After not getting any feedback, I decided to do fsck -y This returned my machine to usable. Before doing this while I was just hitting "y" to the questions I did not understand, one of them mentioned that it had to create a lost+found directory and after a while that the directory was out of space. It asked me the question to expand. So, I hit yes. Anyways, after all is said and done, that filesystem has 500MB of more free space than it did before (it doesn't take into account the fact that /usr/src is now empty and the size of lost+found). What does the expand option do? Can I safely delete lost+found? Like I mentioned before, this is my first time in going through these types of issues and I have not found any documentation that I can fully understand on fsck and what it does. In any event, thank you all for your assistance.
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