From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 11 2:41:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from prg.traveller.cz (prg.traveller.cz [193.85.2.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A67AD37B407 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 02:41:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mime@traveller.cz) Received: from prg.traveller.cz (prg.traveller.cz [193.85.2.2]) by prg.traveller.cz (EUnet.1022902037-17/pukvis) with ESMTP id f6B9fOn22934 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:41:24 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:41:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Michal Mertl To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: panics and "/sbin/fsck -y" safety Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I upgraded HW and after that I got lots of panics. So I changed the HW again but again I got (1 so far) panic. After all crashes I was reviving the system the panic message was about ffs problems and sometimes automatic reboot failed because filesystem inconsistencies. The system is 4.2-RELEASE so doesn't have the option fsck_y_enable. I know it's usage is not recommended but I always end running fsck -y because I don't want to answer milion times questions I don't know the right answer to. I can probably live with some loss of data (I backup the system to tape so the loss shouldn't be that bad) so I would run fsck -y automatically. So my question then is: would I risk too much running fsck -y automatically (I should probably note I have softupdates enabled and Adaptec SCSI Raid with battery backup) ? The other problem I noticed is that sometimes, when I run fsck second (or third) time, I get some more errors. After first fsck the system is able to mount the slice but if it still contains error could it be the reason of another panic? I hope it won't panic anymore (or at least not every ten hours as it did until now (after first HW upgrade). If one run of fsck is not enough should I run it again and again until it doesn't find any error? -- Michal Mertl mime@traveller.cz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message