From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 2 15:07:09 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC2D16A41B for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:07:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@more.net) Received: from jane.spg.more.net (jane.spg.more.net [207.160.133.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B6513C465 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:07:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@more.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jane.spg.more.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D549C131; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:07:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Dan D Niles To: "Peter A. Giessel" In-Reply-To: <460BDD46.1040503@mac.com> References: <1175107133.21170.24.camel@jane.spg.more.net> <200703290547.07195.pieter@degoeje.nl> <460BDD46.1040503@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:07:09 -0500 Message-Id: <1175526429.27314.15.camel@jane.spg.more.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck fails on 6T system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:07:10 -0000 On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 07:37 -0800, Peter A. Giessel wrote: > On 2007/03/28 19:47, Pieter de Goeje seems to have typed: > > On woensdag 28 maart 2007, Dan D Niles wrote: > >> I am trying to fsck a 6T filesystem on a server that crashed. I'm > >> running FreeBSD 6.2-p3. > >> > >> # fsck -t ufs -y /dev/da0 > >> fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 1993797728 bytes for inoinfo > > Could you run 'limits' here? I suspect 'datasize' is too low. > > It might also help to turn your swap space on: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=swapon # swapctl -l Device: 1024-blocks Used: /dev/amrd0s2b 2097152 4