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Date:      Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:19:37 -0700
From:      "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
To:        Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
Cc:        msv@arisia.net (Mark S. Velasquez), freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: **ccd, disk striping, and fsck problems** 
Message-ID:  <199610151919.MAA28584@MindBender.serv.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 15 Oct 96 11:58:11 -0500. <199610151658.LAA26097@brasil.moneng.mei.com> 

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>>  We're running FreeBSD 2.1.5 and I recently striped 3 disks(Quantum 4.3GB,
>> 7400 rpm) into one logical volume, and have beeen using it without incident.
>> However, when I brought the system down for maintainance, it was unable to
>> boot due to an fsck problem(complains about "out of memory"). The filesystem
>> was built with "-i 1024", which I feel was appropriate for a filesystem to
>> be used as a news server's spool directory, but I'm wondering if this is
>> what's causing the problem.

>I assume you have a fair amount of physical RAM if you are running a news
>server.  That is probably not the problem.

Even more simply...  If you're bringing it up in single user mode,
don't forget to do "ccdconfig -C" before you do your fsck's by hand.

You didn't specify if this is what you were doing, but I forget to do
that every now and then.  Fsck bombs.  I grumble; type ccdconfig -C.
Fsck works...

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