From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 12 7: 7:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9BCA14EB0 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:07:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id PAA77375; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:06:56 GMT (envelope-from joe) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:06:56 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Greg Lehey Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Severe problems with softupdates. Message-ID: <19991112150655.A76708@florence.pavilion.net> References: <19991111201148.A5748@florence.pavilion.net> <19991111221412.46739@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991111221412.46739@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 10:14:12PM -0500, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Also if anyone knows how to recover from it I'd be very grateful to know. > > My /usr partition is uncleanable (although I can 'mount -f' it!! nasty!!). > > Hmm. I suppose the answer is still "one error at a time". There are > plenty of bugs in fsck, and it's quite possible one or more of them > are ganging up with your already damaged file system. > I got it all back in the end, but it involve rolling up my sleaves and 'clri'ing and inteligent use of 'n' at 'RECONNECT?' messages. Fsck should have done a better job in my opinion, and it will probably end up on my plate to fix it. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message