From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 26 11:55:12 2004 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 5DF4F16A4CE for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:55:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8726143D31 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:55:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i2QJsL8a031394; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:54:21 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:55:06 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <20040326180616.GD91553@epstais.com> In-Reply-To: <20040326180616.GD91553@epstais.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403261155.06808.kstewart@owt.com> cc: Richard Dawes Subject: Re: harddisk problem and/or fsck problem? 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: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:55:12 -0000 On Friday 26 March 2004 10:06 am, Richard Dawes wrote: > Greetings, fellow FreeBSD users! > > Everything so far works fine for me, until I drop into single- > user mode to prep for making world. Even then, it seems OK, > except for this alarming output of "fsck -p": Well, you missed reading something because you are supposed to boot -s into single user mode. Then, you don't have write access and the fsck works. BTW, the whole point of booting into single user mode is to avoid a bad kernel. When you drop into single user mode, you aren't testing the new kernel. Kent > > /dev/da0s1a: NO WRITE ACCESS > /dev/da0s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. > > I run "fsck /dev/da0s1a", and I'm just told of NO WRITE for the > fs, and the phases shown without error. But I *can* write > there -- my / partition. > > OK, FYI -- This happens on 4.9-RELEASE and 5.2.1-RELEASE-i386 > both. I have an IBM UltraStar Ultra160 SCSI disk, model no. > IC35L018UDW210-0 ... Runs on a Tyan S2462 "Thunder K7" dual > Athlon-MP board, using the GENERIC kernel. > > I've run the onboard Adaptec-controller's format and verify > utilities, which I presume run without error, since they just > do their thing without error messages and just say when they're > done. > > I install the above via the "miniinst" CDs, cvsup the lastest > sources, and that's it for usage. But the machine boots and > runs fine otherwise. > > Is this something to really worry about? Is it safe to proceed > with making world? Should I try forcing fsck to do anything? > Or, should I try running fsck having booted from CD? Other > ideas or suggestions? > > Thanks all for any help offered! Cheers, > > -Rich -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html