Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:05:24 -0500 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Lee Harr" <missive@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: My computer asks me to run a Manual FSCK Message-ID: <20030330150659.0C0C948463@wastegate.net> In-Reply-To: <BAY2-F14094W6zVdckg00030699@hotmail.com>
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On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 23:59:56 +0000, Lee Harr wrote: >>/dev/ad4s1a: CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM. >>/dev/ad4s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. >>Automatic file system check failed... help! > >I find this tends to happen when the disk is on its way out. > >I recommend that you back up any important information on >this disk. You can mount a filesystem read-only even without >going through the fsck. Hardly. that is what happens when your file system gets corrupted.. I had that happen when my ups run out on my server. you just have to FSCK manually in single user mode. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net
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