From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 2 1:16:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mip.co.za (puck.mip.co.za [209.212.106.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 081C737B401 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 01:15:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@mip.co.za) Received: from patrick (patrick.mip.co.za [10.3.13.181]) by mip.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA45990 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:15:38 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from patrick@mip.co.za) From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: "FreeBSD Question List" Subject: FSCK problem at boot Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:16:26 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG HELP! Please. I have a FreeBSD Firewall which has had the misfortune of an abnormal shutdown over the weekend (a lack of electricity is inclined to do that to you!). Now during boot I am unable to get fsck to sort out the disk inconsistencies. The following lines are part of the output, and they repeat every time I run fsck. This occurs while checking the /usr partition. ---------------------- ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 1573199 status=59 error=40 CANNOT READ: BLK 1048752 CONTINUE? [Y/N] ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 1573210 status=59 error=40 THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 1048863, PHASE 2: (etc) ---------------------- fsck reports the partition as dirty and requires that fsck be re-run, over and over and over and..... Is there any way to get past this? I would really prefer to avoid having to re-install the OS, but right now that seems to be my only option. Patrick. (with even less hair now than yesterday!) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message