From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 8 12:15:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE1914DF6 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:15:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26017; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:13:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:13:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Andy Kohtz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fsck wont clean file system In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Andy Kohtz wrote: > I have encountered something that seems to defy all of my > knowledge ... and general sense too. Fsck isn't cleaning the file > systems. > > I have tried running fsck in single and multi user mode with the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Never run fsck in multiuser mode. It won't fix anything. > file system mounted or unmounted but nothing seems to change the outcome. > The most informative message I have gotten out of it yet simply states: > > >***** FILE SYSTEM STILL DIRTY ***** > > > >***** PLEASE RERUN FSCK ***** Run 'fsck -y' in single user mode, and KEEP running it until it comes clean. > The file system is never modified and the frags never go away ... > no matter how many times I have re-run fsck. frags are fragmented blocks. The only thing that can fix that is a backup & restore. It's not a problem unless it's really high, like 20%. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message