On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 01:04:23PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:04:23 -0700
> From: Chuck Swiger <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: how do i fsck my server?
> To: Gary Kline <[email protected]>
> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <[email protected]>
> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084)
>
> On Jun 15, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> > can anybody clue me in on why fsck on my server [yes, of course as root]
> > seem to refuse to WRITE?
>
> Bad sectors on the hard drive are a somewhat common cause of this.
>
> > we had a power out locally and i caught my UPS at
> > the last second. i powered off my server to save the battery, etc, and
> > a few minutes ago when i ran
> >
> > # fsck -y /var
> >
> > there were unresolved inconsistancies that fsck was not allowed to resolve.
>
> Was /var mounted already? You shouldn't be running fsck on a live
> filesystem; boot single user or from a FreeBSD CD, and run fsck that way.
right. i booted into single-user and fsck still gave me the NO
WRITE response; then i did a
# shutdown now to get a # prompt in single-user and got the same
NO WRITE. Only it did fix the errors. dunno... strange.
>
> > i tried to boot single use but the server (Dell 530) panicked. so finally,
> > after deliberately crashing the box three times, fsck_ufs ran. i was able
> > to
> > ping outside.
> >
> > is there any way of scripting fsck *every* time i reboot this box? i just
> > want to make abs certain that the filesystems are clean. ---didn't fscking
> > used to be easier?
>
> You can set fsck_y_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf, but it shouldn't be
> necessary. The system can figure out for itself whether it shutdown cleanly
> or whether a fsck is necessary.
>
i 'll try that, thanks.
gary
> Regards,
> --
> -Chuck
>
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