From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 8 16:10:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00DE415089 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 16:10:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 42209 invoked by uid 100); 8 Aug 1999 23:08:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Aug 1999 23:08:21 -0000 Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 16:08:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Meyer To: Tom Cc: David Malone , Morgan Davis , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing files in /lost+found causes panic In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Tom wrote: :->Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 14:50:13 -0700 (PDT) :->From: Tom :->To: David Malone :->Cc: Morgan Davis , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org :->Subject: Re: Removing files in /lost+found causes panic :-> :->On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, David Malone wrote: :-> :->> On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 09:21:15AM -0700, Tom wrote: :->> :->> > I don't think you should ever need to use clri. The system should only :->> > panic if the filesystem is corrupt. If fsck finds serious damage, you :->> > should run it again to make sure everything. Chances are the first fsck :->> > left some unfixed problems. :->> :->> I've definitely come up with times where: :->> :->> 1) fsck checks the filesystem and gives it the OK, but it isn't. :-> :-> Yes, but is this a -p", which only does a partial check? If so, that :->may be what it is supposed to do. :-> :->> 2) fsck leaves weird files around in /lost+found which are difficult :->> or impossible to delete. :->> 3) fsck after about 8 runs still goes through the same list of questions :->> and asks to be rerun again. :->> 4) fsck says it doesn't need to be rerun, but if you rerun it it makes :->> more repairs. :-> :-> A lot of these sound like hardware. Some drives, especially IDE, will :->just corrupt themselves. Turing off multi-block mode can somtimes help. :->I have a Maxtor IDE drive (8.4GB) that I can not use with FreeBSD's :->multi-block mode, as data will be corrupted and fsck will always report :->errors. :-> :-> :->Tom :-> :-> :-> :->To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :->with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message :-> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message