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From: Rishi Chopra <rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu>
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I booted into single-user mode and ran 'fsck' - the latest output to the 
terminal says:

**** 	FILE SYSTEM MARKED CLEAN 	****
	/dev/da0s1e
	Last Mounted on /usr
	Phase 1 - check blocks and sizes

****	FILE SYSTEM STILL DIRTY		****

Will fsck continue attempting to fix the filesystem?  Have I suffered a 
total loss or is fsck still doing its thing?

If this is a total loss, can I do anything to get my data back?

-Rishi


Rishi Chopra wrote:
> I'm getting the following error message during startup:
> 
> /usr: mount pending error: blocks 16 files 1
> 
> I'm guessing this orrcured due to a shutdown during background fsck of 
> the filesystem.
> 
> Will the error fix itself (e.g. will the boot process continue and 
> finally proceed to a prompt) or do I need to intervene?  If intervention 
> is required, how would I go about setting things right?
> 

-- 
Rishi Chopra
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra