From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 7 22:57:31 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F06AB106566B for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2011 22:57:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 12-207-105-211.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 055A814F9BD; Sun, 7 Aug 2011 22:57:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E3F1853.1040409@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:57:23 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110706 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "deeptech71@gmail.com" References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2pre OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ghost files X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 22:57:32 -0000 On 08/06/2011 23:08, deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > i'd note that the hard drive is kind of old (>7 years), and i recently > had the power cut during port build operations twice, although the > (UFS) filesystem is fsck-clean. Have you actually booted single user and run 'fsck -y'? That should probably be your next step. -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/