From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 7 23:25:03 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 E18AE16A4BF for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 23:25:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F97F43FE9 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 23:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h886P0215603; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 23:25:00 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: "Eric Lam" , Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 23:24:59 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <000301c375d0$c7c46490$6502a8c0@coredump> In-Reply-To: <000301c375d0$c7c46490$6502a8c0@coredump> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309072324.59921.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: fsck 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: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 06:25:04 -0000 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html