From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 19 10:54:21 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C2E1065670 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:54:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.224.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD018FC0C for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:54:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from X220.ovitrap.com ([122.129.201.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q8JAsAlI027895; Wed, 19 Sep 2012 04:54:12 -0600 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:54:09 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky To: "Thomas Mueller" Message-ID: <20120919175409.2a0c8ef9@X220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <85.11.23206.2D899505@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> References: <85.11.23206.2D899505@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck not working on messed-up file system 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: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:54:21 -0000 Hi, On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 06:05:06 -0400 "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > Script started on Wed Sep 19 04:15:02 2012 > fsck_ffs /dev/ada0p9 just to make sure: the partition was not mounted when you started fsck? > Now I wonder if the file system is really fixed, with possibly some > files in /pkgsrc subdirectories lost, or if the hard drive is > starting to fail. You see it soon. I would not bother about a single problem like this. I have had it over and over again at a location with bad power supply with a normal PC without UPS. The hard disk is - one year later - still working in a different location without any new problems. Erich