From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 31 15:27:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEFC316A4CE for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:27:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04FAA43D2F for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:27:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gert.cuykens@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id f1so841433rne for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:27:31 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=Mg5dVt7c/vzb0N6O7sYStn/iE7hUcXYpT9fjmViLGQWSHXaHcpccevuYEify/BtqtK0LKvJI0bF2U0aJzXjGfNIELxHeLNomKzwRJ9ZxgEE3xwhDSn7hjhdM7N49sh0jEw22DTFQ0RhbyiUQo06Pa0G92g1KXUR1JuaertwayQY= Received: by 10.39.1.75 with SMTP id d75mr2957rni; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:27:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.74.6 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:27:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:27:31 +0100 From: Gert Cuykens To: Henry Miller , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200501310839460639.411C2067@mail.intradyn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200501310839460639.411C2067@mail.intradyn.com> Subject: Re: fsck X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Gert Cuykens List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:27:37 -0000 On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:39:46 -0600, Henry Miller 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.