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Date:      Sun, 7 Sep 2003 23:24:59 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        "Eric Lam" <eric@coredump.ws>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: fsck
Message-ID:  <200309072324.59921.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <000301c375d0$c7c46490$6502a8c0@coredump>
References:  <000301c375d0$c7c46490$6502a8c0@coredump>

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On Sunday 07 September 2003 11:16 pm, Eric Lam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A few days ago, my server got hit by a number of black outs and brown
> outs. I've been kinda worried about the disk integrity and want to do
> some form of "chkdsk/scandisk" on it.  I've read the man pages on
> fsck and I'm not sure where to start.  Every time I run fsck, it
> claims my drive is not in a write mode.  What switches/parameters
> should I use to do some sort of check and automatic repair of my
> drive?

You need to be in single user mode and the disc unmounted

Kent
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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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