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Cc: Dan D Niles <dan@more.net>
Subject: Re: fsck fails on 6T system
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On 2007/03/28 19:47, Pieter de Goeje seems to have typed:
> On woensdag 28 maart 2007, Dan D Niles wrote:
>> I am trying to fsck a 6T filesystem on a server that crashed.  I'm
>> running FreeBSD 6.2-p3.
>>
>> # fsck -t ufs -y /dev/da0
>> fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 1993797728 bytes for inoinfo
> Could you run 'limits' here? I suspect 'datasize' is too low.

It might also help to turn your swap space on:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=swapon