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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:58:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mail Handler <admin@channel1.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fsck error on new 9GB drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809171358070.2759-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980916125455.01168630@pop.channel1.com>

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On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Mail Handler wrote:

> Hi All -- 
> 
> We recently added a Seagate 9GB SCSI drive to an existing
> system (2.2.7).  The drive can be mounted and read/written to
> on a running system.
> 
> On booting, fsck complains:
> 
> cannot alloc 4177922 bytes for lncntp
> 
> and drops to shell.

Classic lack-of-resources error.  Go into /etc/login.conf and bump the
limits out on the daemon class, rebuild the database, then retry.


Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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