From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 30 13:58:01 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B2B916A46C for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:58:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from goingnowhere@gmail.com) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 211DD13C4E1 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:58:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from goingnowhere@gmail.com) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id s27so521458ele for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:57:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=clo3QnwwDFlLlcYz/96b+UHdaWuh7pM0U9e5NTnWQSk=; b=VBYQ9mOav1BC18LC8nahD9wex70yVR5/HQ6f/PUXQuBiyYI5byOHEZQaVgFdoyIkiREqJxaVIWeHQK13oOtr57btH8vjvMfr/vZYvdxGpOsmHGnVMQwt6cNjvxZAvPshlfLQznS/QXywJUFfBe0OnwHI8LLa0xN6OqTbi2yRER4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=lS1MHHLUgP3qIQo0/7BzX4gEgGwBlvl/joBQydmQIpUMq+AqqTF/XY/IcJiXrV7V5tpPSZenrQu/YLig+ZDftW89jTVrcVNuso7dhV1lrBX8McS9uOTdP6tsPxAurjmOpFBjS/3vI29SfbTsTKNv2f1YtIvdB647iB94D8eJA+M= Received: by 10.142.217.17 with SMTP id p17mr1628217wfg.1193751220520; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:33:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.116.17 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:33:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9fcbf7d0710300633r5a5abfdbh4cba86eae4352196@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:33:40 -0700 From: Dudley To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: fsck failing 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: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:58:01 -0000 Note: If there's a more appropriate mailing list, please let me know. I've been running a FreeBSD 4.11 installation for a couple of years without issue. Unfortunately, one of the drives on the 3Ware Escalada 8500 RAID array died leaving the array in a degraded state. The drive likely died in an outage which also corrupted the filesystem. That said, the FreeBSD install is still able to boot until it attempts to mount the filesystem. During the boot process, I get the following error: Can't stat /dev/twed0s1a: Bad file Descriptor Can't stat /dev/twed0s1a: Bad file Descriptor /dev/twed0s1a: CAN"T CHECK FILE SYSTEM /dev/twed0s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY It drops me in to single user mode allowing me to run fsck. If I run just fsck then, it runs successfully but doesn't check twed0s1a which means on reboot the problem is still there. If I force fsck on that partition by running `fsck /dev/twed0s1a` then I get the same errors as above. Please let me know what other steps I should take to get the system booting again. Thanks in advance,