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Date:      Tue, 15 May 2007 13:16:38 -0600
From:      "Ross Penner" <ross.penner@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: File System errors
Message-ID:  <f80199c40705151216p5fea2ef9xc2f96a791768492b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070515185919.GB59938@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
References:  <f80199c40705151115m6b070d06t1a7eed370e039119@mail.gmail.com> <20070515185919.GB59938@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

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On 5/15/07, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> 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/
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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.



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