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Date:      Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:42:31 +0300
From:      =?KOI8-R?B?78zFxyDwxdTSwd6j1w==?= <cronfy@gmail.com>
To:        Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive
Message-ID:  <d4ac64920912180542r59325a60x15124096285dbed@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091208132720.G67127@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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Konrad, Erik, thank you for the good advice. Several foreground fsck
in a row really helped.

Konrad, which hardware are you using with FreeBSD on heavily loaded
and i/o-bound systems?


>> If you have other instances of filesystem corruption (which includes
>> everything which can trigger a kernel panic) you need to use a foreground
>> fsck to fix it.
>
> That's true. You should go down to single user mode by entering "shutdown
> now", unmount your filesystems ("umount -a -t ufs") and check your
> filesystem by "fsck -y". Please read "man fsck" before since implicitly
> answering all questions with yes by "-y" may cause loss of data !!!
>
> (To tell the truth: You probably have to do so anyway.)
>
>> Personally I would recommend not using background fsck at all unless you
>> know exactly what you are doing and why.


-- 
// cronfy



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