Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:50:10 +0100 (CET) From: Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: "PLEASE RERUN FSCK" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912100035240.533-100000@propro.oldserver.demon.nl>
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I have found a lot of pleasure in RTFM of fsck. In fact, I think, I know it by heart, right now. Unfortunately it does not give me a hint what to do if fsck refuses to do anything about an "unrecovered read error", but insists on being rerun infinitily (well no change after 50 times). I've also tried the mailing list archives, but no luck there either. Now this bad partition is the /home partition, on which there is nothing but my own user settings, as I set up the box yesterday. The cause of the problems is that I had to do a cold reboot when fxtv (or probably a parameter I set stupidly) froze everything. That's all. Can't I just "reformat" the /home partition? If so, how. I've already commented out the /home in /etc/fstab. I also tried the -b 32 option (hope I got this right), which gave me the question "update standard superblock?" Both the yes and the no answer did do nothing to change the wish of fsck to be run and run and run and ... Any help, especially something practical to read, much appreciated. Reinstalling everything is no really big deal, but I would like to know and understand :-) Marc Schneiders marc@venster.nl marc@oldserver.demon.nl propro 12:34am up 2:02, load average: 2.00 2.00 2.03 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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