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Subject: Re: unclean filesystem refusing to salvage
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Is this on one computer or across multiple machines running 5.4? My
first thought is of a dying hard drive. Run low level disk repair tools
from your hard drives' manufacturer. 
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 15:28 +1000, Warren wrote:
> im running FreeBSD 5.4 and have /var as well as all the other filesystems not 
> clean and when going to single user mode mounting all and running fsck -y ... 
> it refuses to slvage anything and is causing multiple hassles with my 
> computers stablity and running.
> 
> How do i fix this or what  may  be causing this ?