From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 24 4:23:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F42037B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 04:23:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (malkav.snowmoon.com [209.23.60.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57EEC43FBF for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 04:23:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jaime@snowmoon.com) Received: (qmail 74271 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2003 12:23:13 -0000 Received: from localhost.snowmoon.com (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.snowmoon.com with SMTP; 24 Feb 2003 12:23:13 -0000 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:23:13 -0500 (EST) From: jaime@snowmoon.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: fsck problem Message-ID: <20030224071540.W74181-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a RAID-5 array on /home via vinum. This morning, the server (running 4.8-PRERELEASE, compiled last week) wouldn't allow anyone to login via ssh, imap, or console. So I had someone reboot the server via control-alt-delete. Then it said that not all processes would dia, use ps axl. Of course, since we couldn't login, this was pointless advise. :) We then used the reset button on the chassis. As I type, the server is in single user mode. The fsck commands result in: CAN NOT READ: BLK 16 I've looked at http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/smm/03.fsck/paper.html and found its information less than encouraging. Since its said to "seek a guru", I was hoping that someone here could help my poor little school district. If this wasn't on vinum, I would assume that my next step would be to assume a dead drive and remove it and move on. However, this is a vinum array. I'm not sure how it could be a bad drive if the array is composed of 4 drives. Any help, pointers, etc. would be GREATLY appreciated. My entire school district is effectively dead in the water until this server is running again. TIA, Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message