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Date:      Thu, 8 Sep 2005 21:58:52 +0200
From:      Leon Messner <lwlbsd@compuserve.de>
To:        Jerahmy Pocott <quakenet1@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fsck says "UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY"
Message-ID:  <20050908195852.GB2768@asterix.bsdserved.de>
In-Reply-To: <79096981-E73E-4389-9F1C-38789E98AE94@optusnet.com.au>
References:  <79096981-E73E-4389-9F1C-38789E98AE94@optusnet.com.au>

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On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:05:06PM +1000, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> After a server lost power unexpectedly (read: someone pulled the plug  
> out), on reboot
> the automatic fsck failed with "UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY" as
> the message. Running fsck interactively doesn't seem to be able to  
> fix it..
> 
> Every time in phase one it says:
> 
> CANNOT READ: BLK 66322496
> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
<snip> 
> Any ideas on what I could try to fix this?
> 

You could have a look at tunefs(8) and turn soft updates off for
fsck'ing.

HTH
Leon

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