Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 10:35:13 -0500 From: Anthony M. Agelastos <iqgrande@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! Hard disk problems Message-ID: <2B9E5D73-090D-4545-843B-47021314CADD@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E508C917-06FF-442D-B1F0-8A0C9247A346@gmail.com> References: <DCAAE8DA-974D-403A-96FE-6440653EA0C2@gmail.com> <E508C917-06FF-442D-B1F0-8A0C9247A346@gmail.com>
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On Jan 2, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: > > 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. > Also, what methods are there in backtracking what the cause of the errors could have been? How can I tell if there is something wrong with the hard disk (bad blocks that cannot be used anymore, etc.)? I suppose what I intend to gather by these questions is if this drive can still be trusted, or if I should start looking at getting a new one. Any insight would be appreciated.
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