From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 25 16:49:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 1CF6E16A4DD for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:49:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdarnold@buddydog.org) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.192.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB6A943D46 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:49:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdarnold@buddydog.org) Received: from [192.168.204.100] (c-24-147-85-158.hsd1.ma.comcast.net[24.147.85.158]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20060725164919m1100l5oece>; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:49:19 +0000 Message-ID: <44C64B92.2090101@buddydog.org> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:49:22 -0400 From: Jonathan Arnold User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Serious disk problems 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, 25 Jul 2006 16:49:21 -0000 My power supply died and now my root file system seems to be having major problems. I run fsck -y on it and after complaining about dozens of sectors having problems being read and "Unexpected soft update"s, fsck ends with: fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 3962308096 bytes for inoinfo Can anything be done about this? -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Jiggle The Handle, a personal blog http://jiggle.anaze.us Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints