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Date:      Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:53:10 +0100 (CET)
From:      Marco Beishuizen <marco@beishuizen.info>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@uni-mainz.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD questions mailing list <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: fsck locks up SMP system (5.3-REL)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.61.0412221538030.249@tsunami.bsd>
In-Reply-To: <41C97F72.4030409@uni-mainz.de>
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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"



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