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Date:      Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:30:57 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        reese@adeptscience.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: strange fsck results
Message-ID:  <44skoapa4u.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
In-Reply-To: <49552461.25264.5D35D1@localhost> (reese@adeptscience.com's message of "Fri\, 26 Dec 2008 18\:37\:21 -0000")
References:  <49552461.25264.5D35D1@localhost>

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reese@adeptscience.com writes:

> I am running FreeBSD 6.3 as a VMware virtual server and am getting some 
> strange results when I run fsck.  When I run it in multi-user mode I get 
> quite a few UNREF FILE errors but when I switch to single user mode 
> fsck does not find any errors.  Is this something I need to worry about 
> and if it is how might I try to get fsck to repair them?

When you run fsck in multi-user mode, are you running it on a mounted
filesystem?  In that case, those errors would be perfectly normal, since
the kernel will typically have several file handles open on each
filesystem it mounts.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/



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