From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 17 02:28:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52752106566B for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:28:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 189228FC13 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:28:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id o0H2SpB0017575 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:28:51 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0H2Soxd040450 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:28:51 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id o0H2So83040447; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:28:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:28:50 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: The-IRC FreeBSD Message-ID: <20100117022850.GH5651@dan.emsphone.com> References: <322efb7b1001161715s47de3bcdqd40e6efabaf57a9b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <322efb7b1001161715s47de3bcdqd40e6efabaf57a9b@mail.gmail.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:28:51 -0600 (CST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Errors on UFS Partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:28:55 -0000 In the last episode (Jan 16), The-IRC FreeBSD said: > I am sorry if I am asking a question that might have been brought up > before I have attempted to research my issue but it has many angles it > might be listed under so please bare with me. > > We have had ongoing problems with UFS Errors on our root partition (and > any additional partition that did not have soft-updates enabled by > default) and we recently had a problem with a secondary drive that housed > home directories completely filled up and then everything locked up due-to > huge CPU and Memory usage because nothing was able to write to the drive > but when the server was rebooted it failed to bootup because of critical > errors on the root partition. > > We have /etc and /usr on the root partition and our home/var partitions > mistakenly do not have soft-updates flag set. > > ::dmesg:: > http://the-irc.com/dmesg > > ::mount:: > /dev/ad4s1a on / (ufs, local) > devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel) > /dev/ad4s1d on /home (ufs, local, with quotas) > /dev/ad4s1e on /tmp (ufs, local, noexec, nosuid, soft-updates) > /dev/ad4s1f on /var (ufs, local) > devfs on /var/named/dev (devfs, local, multilabel) > procfs on /proc (procfs, local) > /dev/ad0s1e on /Backups (ufs, local, soft-updates) > /dev/ad0s1d on /root (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > ::fsck /:: > ** /dev/ad4s1a (NO WRITE) fsck'ing a filesystem that is currently mounted read-write will always produce errors. Boot in single-user mode if you want to check the root filesystem or other fs'es that you can't dismount in multi-user mode. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com