From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 6 22:52:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C76F16A41F for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 22:52:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 218DA43D6D for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 22:51:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id jB6Mpk9I031816; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 16:51:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 16:51:46 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: robert@webtent.com Message-ID: <20051206225146.GB33064@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1133906152.985.19.camel@columbus.webtent.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1133906152.985.19.camel@columbus.webtent.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Fixing fs with fsck 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, 06 Dec 2005 22:52:08 -0000 In the last episode (Dec 06), Robert Fitzpatrick said: > fsck /usr not as bad, but still: > > esmtp# fsck /usr > ** /dev/da0s1d (NO WRITE) first of all, don't fsck live filesystems. You'll get an inconsistent view as the OS updates the disk at the same time fsck reads from it. Try booting into single-user mode and check them again. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com