Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:27:31 +0100 From: Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> To: Henry Miller <hmiller@intradyn.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck Message-ID: <ef60af0905013107272541dc0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200501310839460639.411C2067@mail.intradyn.com> References: <ef60af0905012816376bb352d9@mail.gmail.com> <200501310839460639.411C2067@mail.intradyn.com>
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:39:46 -0600, Henry Miller <hmiller@intradyn.com> wrote: > > > On 1/29/2005 at 01:37 Gert Cuykens wrote: > > >i was playing with the py-bittorent thingie and everything froze ? > >when i rebooted it siad something like bad disk run fsck manually > > > >->me panicking > > > >when typing fsck enter he started asking things like slavage y/n clear > y/n > > > >pushed enter damn no default answer > > > >->me really starting panicking > > > >hoping y was the right answer on the multiple chose questions. After > >pushing many times on y everthing seems to work again ? > > > >was y the right answer ? > > I didn't see a reply, so I'll give it my best shot: > > Maybe. the correct answer to fsck's question is not something anyone > other than experts can guess at. Even experts often wish fsck would > tell them more. (unfortunately it isn't easy for fsck to give > meaningful information, it knows something is wrong but not what it > means to you) > > In the case of salvage, y is normally right. However some other > questions n is the right answer. I'm not enough of an expert to say > no. > > Best: keep good backups so if/when you make a mistake (which could be > more than fsck, could be accidently delete a file, or disk crash) you > can recover. > > I recommend you switch to FreeBSD 5.3 if that is a choice. > Softupdates means you almost never have to run fsck manually. It > really does work. > > py-bittorent CANNOT cause your system to freeze. However if there is > something wrong with your system py-bittorent might trigger it. > > Check your hardware. Perhaps a fan isn't spinning anymore causing your > system to freeze under load. Perhaps you have bad memory. (Good > luck detecting these, often problems only show up when you are not > testing) > I am using 5.3 and i did not had enough disk space on the partition bittorent was using, causeing a system freeze.
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