From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 10 15:32: 6 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 15:32:04 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0636D37B400 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 15:32:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA96835; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 17:31:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 17:31:53 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Raymond Hicks Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Corrupted File System? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Raymond Hicks wrote to Ryan Thompson: > did you try asking this at the message baord at http://bsdvault.net / Hi Raymond. I've sent this back to freebsd-questions. I'm sure the original poster (Chris Cook) would be more interested in your response than I :-) - Ryan > On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Ryan Thompson wrote: > > > 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 -- 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