From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 16 18:35:27 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C51916A40A for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 18:35:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikhailg@webanoide.org) Received: from shanshito.webanoide.org (shanshito.webanoide.org [150.101.108.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEBC513C469 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 18:35:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikhailg@webanoide.org) Received: from maxito.hba.navalradio.cl (maxito.hba.navalradio.cl [172.26.4.34]) (authenticated bits=0) by shanshito.webanoide.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4GIZLmA098721 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 16 May 2007 18:35:25 GMT (envelope-from mikhailg@webanoide.org) Message-ID: <464B4EE8.6050305@webanoide.org> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 04:35:20 +1000 From: Mikhail Goriachev Organization: Webanoide User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Macintosh/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ross Penner References: <20070515185919.GB59938@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File System errors 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: Wed, 16 May 2007 18:35:27 -0000 Ross Penner wrote: > On 5/15/07, Roland Smith wrote: >> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:15:06PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: >>> I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was >>> worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I >>> looked into the matter and discovered the utility fsck. I ran this as >>> root and I got the following: >> You normally don't have to do this manually. If a filesystem isn't >> cleanly unmounted, it is automatically checked (in the background if >> possible, so it might take a while) on the next boot. >> >> And in that case fsck won't bother you unless it runs into problems it >> can't solve. >> >> Roland >> -- >> R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ >> [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] >> pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) >> > > Thanks for everybodies help. I restarted in single user mode which > allowed me to do the check manually. I'll probably just let the > background check go if it happens again. By default, the background checking doesn't do much. In my experience, every time one of the machines goes down, I have to schedule a manual fsck (fsck -fy) in single user mode. Another option, probably, is this: fsck_y_enable="YES" It sounds scary though. Regards, Mikhail. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: mikhailg@webanoide.org Web: www.webanoide.org