From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 22 00:22:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52978106567A for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:22:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F1078FC16 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:22:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-112-118.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.112.118]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9692316C01EA; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:19:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id m7M0JQ6H001489; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:19:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:19:26 +0200 From: Polytropon To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Polytropon Message-Id: <20080822021926.d2d9ee0f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <200808211649.m7LGnH8l009064@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <20080821173738.1e01ca84.freebsd@edvax.de> <200808211649.m7LGnH8l009064@lurza.secnetix.de> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Oliver Fromme , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Again: fsck_ffs memory requirements X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:22:09 -0000 On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:49:17 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Fromme wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:23:41 +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Increase kern.maxdsiz. > > > > It seems that I don't have kern.maxdsiz: > > > > # sysctl kern.maxdsiz > > sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.maxdsiz' > > > > Am I looking at the wrong place? Allthough I've been using > > FreeBSD since 4.0, it seems that I got a "little" stupid over > > the years... :-/ > > It's a loader tunable, so you must put it in /boot/loader.conf. I put a value of ca. 1.5 GB into the loader's config file and that solved the problem. Thanks! > Best regards, and good luck with your recovery! Allthough fsck_ffs 5 does seem to be able to calloc() the needed memory, it fails with the same message as fsck_ffs 7: fsck_ffs: bad inode number 306176 to nextinode Don't know what to do next. I may gather all information I have, write al little "story" and bring this topic up here next week. Maybe someone has better ideas than me. > PS: Better make good backups next time. More precise: Better make _at least any_ backups. :-) More than 5 years without any (!) problem with FreeBSD and now this stupid problem... :-( -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...