From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 23:43:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from access.inet.co.th (access.inet.co.th [203.151.127.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CF437BDEC for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:43:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pirat@access.inet.co.th) Received: from TruPPP3501.inet.co.th (TruPPP3501.inet.co.th [203.151.127.161]) by access.inet.co.th (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09496 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:43:12 +0700 (ICT) (envelope-from pirat@access.inet.co.th) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:45:53 +0700 (ICT) From: pirat X-Sender: pirat@parwati.oaep.go.th To: FreeBSD questions Subject: can not clean file system, manual fsck does not help Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi sirs, this morning, i have some problems during booting machine. the system stops at some point and needs manual fsck for some file systems. i hit RETURN for /bin/sh as suggested by os. i do fsck for the file system that needs manual fsck but i get fsck.core instead of a clean file system. i do control-d and/or exit but the system won't go. my instinct suggest me that 'why not put a comment on /etc/fstab entry that has problem' and o do that. now exit and the system comes up with minimal capability. before going on further, please have a look at my 'uname -a' result below FreeBSD parwati.oaep.go.th 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #5: Fri Jun 16 10:53:52 ICT 2000 root@parwati.oaep.go.th:/usr/src/sys/compile/ParWaTi i386 and also please have a look at my /etc/fstab below # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1h /usr ufs rw 2 2 #/dev/ad1s1e /usr/X11R6 ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1e /usr/home ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1f /usr/local ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad1s1g /usr/obj ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad1s1f /usr/src ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1g /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 the file system that has problem is marked with #, that is /dev/ad1s1e and the mount poit is /usr/X11R6. my question is that is there anyway to bring the system up normally without doing in such a way what i have done ? i urgent need your help since i use a lot of X windows system but i can not use them. many thanks in advance for your helps and hints. with regards, psr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message