From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 15 19:16:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35D916A403 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 19:16:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ross.penner@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C6C13C455 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 19:16:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ross.penner@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so2043181wxc for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 12:16:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fC0cWcX3pXEq5DpQZSotbqDCtnCCHts8iJtVjxZqOwXcisbq3XeNW/neKaGgOIsBW8xWz1ZceSXxvbUsD4s2c44jpWiwixntKFepIMiOgKtROBXJPWhEKcsKXrsZKdpsAsbdDgmyiSg4LzKij4c+4ccU7jZ165iiYAjNOokJYnM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ok7qxJMpsawpxbYVn7y6xl6t3KGf4+9AIqOLtYf54TBwjXn+wROgTMaQ9D7r4mvCPc+zl/J26Gbqn8dUyzdIURdyAPmei5JwXmjdrFrZWQprzk9FHzJKU8dDqTrwqw7A9eugKCG9lzaR12mxiPg3dB4KRjIoiSWIW1lBsfMmgTM= Received: by 10.90.81.14 with SMTP id e14mr6711761agb.1179256598961; Tue, 15 May 2007 12:16:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.115.16 with HTTP; Tue, 15 May 2007 12:16:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 13:16:38 -0600 From: "Ross Penner" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070515185919.GB59938@slackbox.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070515185919.GB59938@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: File System errors 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: Tue, 15 May 2007 19:16:40 -0000 On 5/15/07, Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:15:06PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: > > I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was > > worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I > > looked into the matter and discovered the utility fsck. I ran this as > > root and I got the following: > > You normally don't have to do this manually. If a filesystem isn't > cleanly unmounted, it is automatically checked (in the background if > possible, so it might take a while) on the next boot. > > And in that case fsck won't bother you unless it runs into problems it > can't solve. > > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) > Thanks for everybodies help. I restarted in single user mode which allowed me to do the check manually. I'll probably just let the background check go if it happens again.