From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 9 16:44:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B88B150BB for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 16:44:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@oldserver.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.105.241] (helo=propro) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 11wEAH-0006Ah-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:44:05 +0000 Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 01:44:04 +0100 (CET) From: Marc Schneiders To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "PLEASE RERUN FSCK" In-Reply-To: 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 On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Marc Schneiders wrote: > 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. > Figured out the how to reformat in the mean time. (newfs or, as I did it, through /stand/sysinstall and be carefull). I would still like to know the "proper" way out. > 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 > Marc Schneiders marc@venster.nl marc@oldserver.demon.nl propro 1:12am up 2:40, load average: 2.00 2.04 2.00 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message