Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:12:51 -0800 From: Rishi Chopra <rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> Subject: Booting Problem After Power Loss (fsck)? Message-ID: <402716D3.5060604@cal.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040203112519.3f806ab3@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> References: <401F1A5E.8040105@cal.berkeley.edu> <401F6542.2090504@cal.berkeley.edu> <20040203112519.3f806ab3@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro>
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Here's a summary of my problem so far:
Server was idle (e.g. absolutely no processes running aside from
csh, ttyv0 and ps) when power was cut; server reports a problem mounting
/usr partition upon reboot.
I have since tried the following:
(1) Booted into single-user mode and ran 'fsck' - the latest output to
the terminal says:
**** FILE SYSTEM MARKED CLEAN ****
/dev/da0s1e
Last Mounted on /usr
Phase 1 - check blocks and sizes
After letting the system 'do its thing' for 5+ days, the output did not
change.
(2) I tried an 'fsck -p' and got the following message:
/dev/da0s1a: 1128 files, 36058 used, 47059 free (261 frags, 58771
blocks, 0.1% fragmentations)
The display has been stuck with that same output for countless hours now.
Questions I have:
(1) Have I suffered a total loss or is this still some way to revover my
filesystem? After suffering a similar loss with a hardware raid-0
failure under win2k, I was assuming the FreeBSD setup would be more
durable. I would hate to walk away thinking that a simple power loss
could wipe out a freebsd server under nothing more than one terminal login.
(2) Why would a simple fsck of the filesystem not work in my case?
Thanks,
Rishi
Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 01:09:22 -0800
> Rishi Chopra <rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>
>>I booted into single-user mode and ran 'fsck' - the latest output to the
>>terminal says:
>>
>>**** FILE SYSTEM MARKED CLEAN ****
>> /dev/da0s1e
>> Last Mounted on /usr
>> Phase 1 - check blocks and sizes
>>
>>**** FILE SYSTEM STILL DIRTY ****
>
>
> Can't be only this. It should have outputted something else between
> Phase 1 and FILE SYSTEM STILL DIRTY.
>
>
>>Will fsck continue attempting to fix the filesystem? Have I suffered a
>>total loss or is fsck still doing its thing?
>
>
> Read man fsck and its see also section.
>
>
>
--
Rishi Chopra
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra
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