From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 24 04:22:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F2C7106564A for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:22:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A657F8FC08 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:22:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o5O4MesZ001143; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:22:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:22:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:22:38 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20100624042238.GA64302@thought.org> References: <20100623051418.GA80985@thought.org> <20100623183542.1d6aef45.freebsd@edvax.de> <4C224C57.6000801@strauser.com> <20100623201013.07f68ad3.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100623201013.07f68ad3.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: before i even =touch= my server again.... 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: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:22:47 -0000 On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 08:10:13PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:03:03 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > On 06/23/10 11:35, Polytropon wrote: > > > Of course, all write attempts to /var will then fail. > > > > Or even worse: they'll succeeded. And then when you re-mount /var, > > you'll lose access to all the files you've written in the mean time. > > True, an important advice. In case /var is not mounted, the > /var directory on / will be just a "plain directory". Depending > on program behaviour, it is possible that logging programs > create a new file when missing a file to append. In this case, > / will fill with such files in /var. It's important to remove > them prior to re-mounting /var. It is possible to move them, > e. g. to /tmp, and immediately append them to the correct files > after re-mounting /var. But if (small) data loss is acceptable > for the time needed to fix /var, it is an option. > > Another possibility is - but I never tried it - to force fsck > to check a mounted partition that is in use. > > # fsck -yf /var > > This may (!) cause other forms of damage, allthough fsck should > be able to correct most usual problems. > > It's a good approach to stop as many services as possible that > could want to write to /var, and restart them after /var is clean > and mounted again. > yeah, ive had it; some 40 minutes ago i rebooted into [3][safe] and i think fsck resolved the inode troubles and since my email work, i'll wait until my pal gets back. i can't see under there so the KVM config will have to wait. .... > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org 99 44/100% Guaranteed Novel