From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 22 14:53:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8043516A4CF for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:53:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp17.wxs.nl (smtp17.wxs.nl [195.121.6.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEE4943D45 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:53:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marco@beishuizen.info) Received: from tsunami.bsd (ipd50a233c.speed.planet.nl [213.10.35.60]) by smtp17.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I94002J0PCMDR@smtp17.wxs.nl> for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:53:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:53:10 +0100 (CET) From: Marco Beishuizen In-reply-to: <41C97F72.4030409@uni-mainz.de> Sender: marco@tsunami.bsd To: "O. Hartmann" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT FreeBSD: Homepage: References: <41C974EF.8020002@uni-mainz.de> <41C97F72.4030409@uni-mainz.de> cc: FreeBSD questions mailing list Subject: Re: fsck locks up SMP system (5.3-REL) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Marco Beishuizen List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:53:12 -0000 On stardate Wed, 22 Dec 2004, the wise O. Hartmann entered: > Dear Marco. > Thanks. In my case, FreeBSD 5.3 dies in single user mode on nearly each disk > activity (it is obviously a FreeBSD 5.3-issue with > my ASUS CUR-DLS based system). > > Please take a look at fsck_ffs(8) man page. There is at the end of the > description of the options an explanation of the lost+find facility. > Obviously orphaned files and directories (and in most cases those which are > expected to be some of them) are gathered and reconnected in lost+found. My > 'periodic' cron-job deletes the contents of lost+found every 7 days. > Oliver Well the problem didn't dissappear. I was just checking the filesystem with the midnight commander, and suddenly mc froze in "ufs"-state. Now I'm running fsck again. -- Idiot Box, n.: The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves. -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"