From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 27 14:55:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17292 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 14:55:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mutsgo.dyn.ml.org (kf7nn@dal15-05.ppp.iadfw.net [206.66.4.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17281 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 14:55:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kf7nn@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from kf7nn@localhost) by mutsgo.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA21029 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:55:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kf7nn) From: George Vagner Message-Id: <199802272255.QAA21029@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org> Subject: best way to recover To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:55:21 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG someone said that i should never run fsck on a "live" file system, what do they mean by "live" and is this true? well i did run fsck from a remote location and it gave me some errors which i told it to fix and upon next boot the system hung. I booted into single user mode and ran fsck again which it found more errors and i told it to fix them. Now the system is back to normal i THINK... what is the best way to make sure that all my binaries are in tact and my kernel is ok? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message