From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 2 15:31:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 31B4516A420 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 15:31:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iqgrande@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 475BB43D5D for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 15:31:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iqgrande@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so2519681nzo for ; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 07:31:30 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=mYVXo4kxZYJXQ9EgvAJdJuVQNVFwYkQVmZ2B+wmrxdMN64IF2aChrnkXtkXu9MMMPt9ncL6iC/qqPPpY8f2Yoa/I9u2uHofl5nU6tYeIhob6wJLCVxFQ6oWe1qND8CAZ726yamRq11GiUfElUi5L8K7krwD11fDeKy8VSTIg9qw= Received: by 10.37.12.25 with SMTP id p25mr2135061nzi; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 07:31:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.2? ( [67.191.187.35]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 15sm480912nzn.2006.01.02.07.31.28; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 07:31:29 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Anthony M. Agelastos Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 10:31:26 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Subject: Re: Help! Hard disk problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:31:32 -0000 On Jan 1, 2006, at 11:28 PM, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: > Hello all, > > In doing some routine items on my FreeBSD box, it started behaving > oddly. I rebooted and to my surprise, I started receiving many > messages displaying information regarding that /usr has issues. It > puts me directly into single user mode and tells me to run fsck > manually. When I run fsck all by itself, here is what it tells me: > > ** /dev/ad0s1f > ** Last Mounted on /usr > ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes > UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=496000 > UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY > > CLEAR? [yn] > > This is the first time that I have ever run fsck and I have no idea > what this message means or what the best course of action on CLEAR > to take. Any input at all would be greatly appreciated (FreeBSD 6.0- > STABLE if it helps). Thank you all so much for your assistance. > > -Anthony > > After not getting any feedback, I decided to do fsck -y This returned my machine to usable. Before doing this while I was just hitting "y" to the questions I did not understand, one of them mentioned that it had to create a lost+found directory and after a while that the directory was out of space. It asked me the question to expand. So, I hit yes. Anyways, after all is said and done, that filesystem has 500MB of more free space than it did before (it doesn't take into account the fact that /usr/src is now empty and the size of lost+found). What does the expand option do? Can I safely delete lost+found? Like I mentioned before, this is my first time in going through these types of issues and I have not found any documentation that I can fully understand on fsck and what it does. In any event, thank you all for your assistance.