From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 10 14:55:38 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 14:55:36 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tcworks.net (mail.tcworks.net [216.61.218.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1187737B400 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 14:55:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from pimp (conway99.tcworks.net [216.61.218.99]) by mail.tcworks.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA61959; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 16:53:03 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ccook@tcworks.net) Message-ID: <003b01c057fd$08d39400$0101a8c0@daddy> From: "Chris Cook" To: "Ryan Thompson" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Corrupted File System? Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:03:03 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you very much for the help... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Thompson" To: "Chris Cook" Cc: Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 2:29 PM Subject: Re: Corrupted File System? > Chris Cook wrote to freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG: > > > This may be off topic, but I figured it would be a good place to ask... > > we had one of our servers "lock up" for some reason. Had to reboot it > > without shutting down properly and when it came up fsck ran and had some > > errors. I told it to fix them all but I've now run fsck about 1000 > > times and it still comes up with errors like the ones below... It cannot > > seem to fix them, is this serious or do I not have to worry? I've even > > deleted the mrtg directory, after replacing the files in that directory > > from backup fsck will complain again... here is the output: > > > > [...] > > > > Even if you tell it to fix the errors, they will come back... THANKS for > > any help! > > Make sure you run ``fsck -p'', and do so in single-user mode. Unless your > disk/controller is actually hosed, you should not get such "repeat" errors > if you follow these guidelines. > > Most repeat errors are as a result of a sysadmin running fsck on a > mounted, live filesystem in multi-user mode. Don't do that ;-) > > - Ryan > > -- > Ryan Thompson > Network Administrator, Accounts > > SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com > #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 > > Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon > Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message