From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 23 21:57:51 2003 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 97F6837B401 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 21:57:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F1743F3F for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 21:57:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h4O4vnxJ066009; Fri, 23 May 2003 23:57:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 23:57:49 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: David Fleck Message-ID: <20030524045749.GD46907@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1BFC1FE0-8D96-11D7-8A86-000393681B06@lafn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-BETA X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't fsck disk - now what? 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: Sat, 24 May 2003 04:57:51 -0000 In the last episode (May 23), David Fleck said: > Using 4.6 release. > > OK, I was browsing happily in Mozilla when the system became completely > unresponsive - couldn't ping it, couldn't get a response from any of the > VTs. So I reboot: > > Automatic boot in progress... > [... Several filesystems found clean, messages deleted ... ] > /dev/ad0s1f: clean, 1201402 free (522 frags, 150110 blocks, 0.0% > fragmentation) > /dev/ad0s1f: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=1640145 > /dev/ad0s1f: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. > THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM HAD AN UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: > /dev/ad0s1f (/usr) > Automatic file system check failed . . . help! > > "Help", indeed. /usr is not a partition I want to be without. > I drop to /bin/sh, and discover, to my great unhappy surprise, that > I don't have fsck in /bin. WTF??? Fsck lives in /sbin, not bin. Answer yes to all the questions (should only be a couple). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com