From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 14 20:58:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kootenai.mcn.net (kootenai.mcn.net [204.212.170.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEE4537B63E for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 20:58:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trebesch@mcn.net) Received: from mazer.mcn.net (pm3c-109.bozeman.mcn.net [63.74.220.109]) by kootenai.mcn.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e7F3n2o18992 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 21:49:07 -0600 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 21:48:55 -0600 (MDT) From: "Tyson N. Trebesch" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: A note about fsck Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In general, it is a good idea to use fsck on the raw device and not the block device when you're interested in fixing the filesystem. That is, fsck /dev/rad0s1a is probably better than fsck /dev/ad0s1a given inconsistencies that arise between the block device and the buffer cache. -Tyson --------- Tyson N. Trebesch Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? trebesch@mcn.net Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? http://www.mcn.net/~trebesch BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message