From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 15 06:51:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA23440 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 06:51:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.Bridge.COM (gatekeeper.bridge.com [167.76.159.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA23435 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 06:51:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhughes@logroad.bridge.com) Received: (from mailproxy@localhost) by gatekeeper.Bridge.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA18208; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 08:51:15 -0500 Received: from dns1srv.bridge.com(167.76.56.13) by gatekeeper.Bridge.COM via proxy (cih) id xma018148; Thu, 15 Oct 98 08:51:02 -0500 Received: from logroad.bridge.com (logroad.bridge.com [167.76.15.21]) by dns1srv.bridge.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA06271; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 08:51:01 -0500 (CDT) Received: by logroad.bridge.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA19845; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 08:51:00 -0500 From: mhughes@logroad.bridge.com (Michael Hughes) Message-Id: <199810151351.IAA19845@logroad.bridge.com> Subject: Re: damaged / filesystem To: doug@footech.com (Doug Jolley) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 08:51:00 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810150250.TAA23980@srv01.bigwheel.net> from "Doug Jolley" at Oct 14, 98 07:50:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug, Try doing fsck -o b=. This should do the job. Doug Jolley said in email to me: > > As a result of a power failure, I now have a damaged root > filesystem. The system seems to think all the inodes have > been used. I've run fsck; but, it doesn't seem to fix the > problem. There is very little in the root file system. > (Most everything is in the /var and /usr file systems.) > I have the root file system fully backed up; and, even if > that were not the case, I could easily make a backup copy > of the contents. My question is: How can I rebuild the > root filesystem so that I can eliminate this problem? > Thanks for any input. > > ... doug > _____________________________________________________________________ > Doug Jolley mailto://doug@footech.com http://www.footech.com > Don't bogart that file, my friend. Net it over to me. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _ _ _ _ _ , Loghome living is the ' ) ) ) / // ' ) / / best ! / / / o _. /_ __. _ // /--/ . . _, /_ _ _ / ' (_<_(__/ /_(_/|_