Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:31:00 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: how do i fsck my server? Message-ID: <20110618053100.GA16059@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <E72360F6-9DC3-4D6A-BD3E-E23D0E7E79E1@mac.com> References: <20110615195027.GA1196@thought.org> <E72360F6-9DC3-4D6A-BD3E-E23D0E7E79E1@mac.com>
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 01:04:23PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:04:23 -0700 > From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> > Subject: Re: how do i fsck my server? > To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) > > On Jun 15, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > can anybody clue me in on why fsck on my server [yes, of course as root] > > seem to refuse to WRITE? > > Bad sectors on the hard drive are a somewhat common cause of this. > > > we had a power out locally and i caught my UPS at > > the last second. i powered off my server to save the battery, etc, and > > a few minutes ago when i ran > > > > # fsck -y /var > > > > there were unresolved inconsistancies that fsck was not allowed to resolve. > > Was /var mounted already? You shouldn't be running fsck on a live filesystem; boot single user or from a FreeBSD CD, and run fsck that way. right. i booted into single-user and fsck still gave me the NO WRITE response; then i did a # shutdown now to get a # prompt in single-user and got the same NO WRITE. Only it did fix the errors. dunno... strange. > > > i tried to boot single use but the server (Dell 530) panicked. so finally, > > after deliberately crashing the box three times, fsck_ufs ran. i was able to > > ping outside. > > > > is there any way of scripting fsck *every* time i reboot this box? i just > > want to make abs certain that the filesystems are clean. ---didn't fscking > > used to be easier? > > You can set fsck_y_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf, but it shouldn't be necessary. The system can figure out for itself whether it shutdown cleanly or whether a fsck is necessary. > i 'll try that, thanks. gary > Regards, > -- > -Chuck > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 8.51a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org
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