From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 23 08:48:56 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 6617716A4CE for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:48:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from iota.root-servers.ch (iota.root-servers.ch [193.41.193.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56A2743D54 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:48:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gaml@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 7553 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2004 08:48:53 -0000 Received: from 80-218-104-238.dclient.hispeed.ch (HELO ga) (80.218.104.238) by 0 with SMTP; 23 Sep 2004 08:48:53 -0000 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:49:59 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <392342192.20040923104959@buz.ch> To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: fsck'ing dirty unmounted file system in multi user? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Gabriel Ambuehl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:48:56 -0000 Hi, after a crash of a server (running 4.10) we wanted to bring it up ASAP and skipped fsck'ing some backup partitions as they weren't essential for it to work. However, I'd now like to fsck them while the machine is in multi user but I always end up with. fsck -fp /dev/ar0s1g /dev/ar0s1g: NO WRITE ACCESS /dev/ar0s1g: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. Do I really have to take the machine to single user just to fix a not currently used FS? Any help would be greatly appreciated. regards, Gabriel