From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 16 20: 4:21 2003 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 1BD8A37B401; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 20:04:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8452243F75; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 20:04:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fozekizer@attbi.com) Received: from socrates (12-210-153-247.client.attbi.com[12.210.153.247]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with SMTP id <2003031704041805200oociqe>; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 04:04:19 +0000 Reply-To: From: "charles pelletier" To: "'Greg 'groggy' Lehey'" , "'Brian McCann'" Cc: Subject: RE: Dirty shutdown and I'm now stuck Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:04:05 -0600 Message-ID: <000b01c2ec3a$40cd2640$05040101@socrates> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20030317013408.GH4895@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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 this may not be the solution, but, i've had similar experiences with various machines i've had, and i was able to run fsck, BUT, i had to run it multiple times, upwards of 7 or 8 times every once in awhile. Mind you, these were pentium Is or IIs with very old hardware, but, it still worked. good luck and i hope you find the final solution :) Charles Pelletier Tech Coordinator St Luke's School Irving, TX -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Greg 'groggy' Lehey Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 7:34 PM To: Brian McCann Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dirty shutdown and I'm now stuck On Sunday, 16 March 2003 at 19:58:25 -0500, Brian McCann wrote: > Ok...I just had a system crash that I was working on. When coming back > up, I got an error that says it cannot read a block on the disk, and to > run fsck manually. When I run "fsck -f /dev/adwhatever" it just says > the same thing, listing the blocks it can't read, asks "Continue [yn]", > and no matter what I choose, I still can't mount it. Anyone have any > ides on how to fix this? Looks like it's time to dig out your backups. "Can't read a block" normally means that the disk is dying. You may be able to salvage something by mounting read-only and trying to copy to a new disk. You don't need a clean file system for a read-only mount. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message