From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 10 22:33:20 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7AE62E03 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 22:33:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.parts-unknown.org (home.parts-unknown.org [50.250.218.161]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5ECBE27D3 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 22:33:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.parts-unknown.org (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.parts-unknown.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CECCD5991D23 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.parts-unknown.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 135C65991D22; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:33:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:33:09 -0700 From: David Benfell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: operation not permitted on entropy file Message-ID: <20140810223309.GC24036@home.parts-unknown.org> References: <20140810070239.GA80734@home.parts-unknown.org> <20140810103119.GA26958@slackbox.erewhon.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZwgA9U+XZDXt4+m+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140810103119.GA26958@slackbox.erewhon.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP on home.parts-unknown.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 22:33:20 -0000 --ZwgA9U+XZDXt4+m+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 12:31:19PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: >=20 > As others have mentioned, run a full fsck of the filesystem that /var is = on > from single user mode. >=20 > Trying to make a backup in this state will probably not work. >=20 The system did indeed crash while I was running the backup. Fortunately, not that much was lost that I hadn't already lost. What I had lost, however, seems quantitatively substantial: I had to empty out /lost+found to get to a clean fsck -fy. Thanks! --=20 David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. --ZwgA9U+XZDXt4+m+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJT5/MkAAoJEBV64x4SNmArjcwP/1aTuLjnCCtyNzRH+Z5gVs5P qLtHzDzaXYtJCrOZrDMcHb/Pa/hzq+LqOfGhhxaQwNJ/LHAU25nPpsIVb4bje9ws yu3m4t8ekD242VuIzZJ84S0ZDFVdfrxSeEyjeq7hr34reai0Hwm0MD4aNPNVRkgD nrais62V3d73I5A5ZOZ/h0Zuic5vJ7SNi6ifliHr0sMlU55wCf4NcDtmx1rCnIHm 1qJ0HuR+c+/NTqC4h+hjgJsd+SVexIwafHAzv9GtJoxFH9IuRkoPzLVb6mU2JZ44 Gz1K/tiP+dSkhRgqnkf+ziJ9Vryaqeuvbvj5OGbVhviZY9qEOpDxsg56iYyqteTZ UV9vSOpWzlb/hkhg9JGpuBuxNDNMTLCnb6Bd4N3oR6TXudVdzvQwRJkgbLlJO60T MT4jb0EJx1Ol+D6Os/jdC5HgBeH1Trh4hPOerjoSv4F4pULWqUDoeN5Hm35dgdle RzxeKjhvXhqAX70yZfdZMwdTx5j/UJuwCGGAQlTSQhBVwpO46S3y+gALCIUkqXlO 20CSVekoIZe49lT0eO92EEu0qXR0I2nYqI0I04kK5Bj6tIrAo8hCQ6ZJn5id5icn UPqH5TqnRgSKJdtHmCD7QhnkO7Wh6Ci8rigIHu+lWgm98yxK+20YQ78Sj3a9poRj DxRKirMu3hWmo/bKfqv3 =dR3n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZwgA9U+XZDXt4+m+--