From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 16 8:14:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FEA337B41A for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 08:14:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from panix1.panix.com (panix1.panix.com [166.84.1.1]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A8AA8FB1 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:14:07 -0500 (EST) Received: (from stanb@localhost) by panix1.panix.com (8.11.3nb1/8.8.8/PanixN1.0) id fBGGE7827721 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:14:07 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200112161614.fBGGE7827721@panix1.panix.com> Subject: HELP! softupdates filesystem fails fsck! To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (Free BSD Questions list) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:14:07 -0500 (EST) From: "Stan Brown" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 machien that has been runing for a long time with a large quantity of data on it (It's a webserver). It's running 3.4 STABLE (yes I know I should have updateetd). It crashed, and on the way up when it tried to run fsck on the /var partition (IDE drive) it failed. I went inot single user and tries to run: fsck -y /dev//wd0s1e I got a buch of correctinos, nut it finally stoped with. fsck: Cannot find inode 252 What can I do to get this system up long enough to get the data off of it? Is it likely this is a genuine disk problem, or is it possible this is a softupdates problem? This partiton BTW is /var, so I'm hoping the /usr partiton, where the data is is recoverable! -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message