Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 15:48:22 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: gareth <bsd@lordcow.org>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck Message-ID: <200605151548.23090.nvass@teledomenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <20060515120057.GA4759@lordcow.org> References: <20060515120057.GA4759@lordcow.org>
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On Monday 15 May 2006 15:00, gareth wrote: > hi, this box has had far too many hard reboots, but can anyone shed some > light on whether this's inconsistent? i boot into single user mode, everything is mounted read-only, > run fsck and fix all the partitions. rerunning fsck shows no more problems. > mounting the filesystems and running fsck shows no problems. but when > i reboot into normal mode, where everything is mounted read-write for normal use > and run fsck on these 2 particular partitions: > (and rebooting into single user mode again doesn't help). > You cannot fsck a read-write mounted filesystem. The kernel is using it and will be in a state where fsck will think it has errors. Umount the filesystem first, check it then. Álternatively you can snapshot it, and fsck -n the_snapshot HTH, Nikos
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