From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 8 15:50:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B389A16A4CF for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 15:50:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA1EB43D1F for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 15:50:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.9/8.11.4) with ESMTP id i38MooQ8074671; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 15:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.9p2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id i38MonFN001578; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 15:50:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.11/Submit) id i38Mol2s001577; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 15:50:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 15:50:46 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu Message-ID: <20040408225046.GA1440@tao.thought.org> References: <20040408171304.GA560@tao.thought.org> <20040408231740.247731ae@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <20040408221042.GA1289@tao.thought.org> <20040409013353.3058d5a6@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040409013353.3058d5a6@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 17 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Gary Kline cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: any unusual inode problems with 4.9-RELEASE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 22:50:57 -0000 On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:33:53AM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 15:10:42 -0700 > Gary Kline wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:17:40PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:13:04 -0700 > > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > For the past few days I'm seeing serious inode problems > > > > on my 40G drive. Has anybody seen unusual troubles with > > > > inodes on FreeBSD-4.9-RELEASE? If not, maybe I'd better > > > > get a second drive and dd over? I was running 4.9-STABLE > > > > prev, and didn't see any major problems. > > > > > > Could you give some details ? > > > > > > At leas twice my 4.9-RELEASE has died and upon > > trying to reboot, I've gotten stalled and thrown > > into single-user mode and asked to fsck by-hand. > > Giving up buffers, printing something useful or ? Grepping logs disk > problems shows something ? Nothing. This server has been busy recently--load averages > 5.00 sometimes. But the strength of FBSD is that it is designed for heavy use. > > [..] > > > > > Suggestions? Do I have to create one huge slight filesystem, > > > > mount it and dd or what? > > > > > > If your asking how to use dd for moving your data to another (bigger) > > > disk please see the faq, it has an entry on this. > > > > > > URL, please? > > /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK > or > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK > > Great! thanks again, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix