From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 27 03:31:04 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29C411065675 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:31:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 059E48FC16 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:31:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 9827 invoked from network); 27 Dec 2008 03:31:03 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 27 Dec 2008 03:31:03 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 285ED50820; Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:30:58 -0500 (EST) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 9AD6E1CD5E; Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:30:57 -0500 (EST) To: reese@adeptscience.com References: <49552461.25264.5D35D1@localhost> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:30:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <49552461.25264.5D35D1@localhost> (reese@adeptscience.com's message of "Fri\, 26 Dec 2008 18\:37\:21 -0000") Message-ID: <44skoapa4u.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange fsck results 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: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:31:04 -0000 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/