Re: fsck unable to read disk sectors

2010-05-19 Thread Matt Thyer
It wouldn't be the BSD way to try to stop the user shooting themselves in the foot. And I agree too as it wouldn't be right for glabel to try to keep track of all possible uses for a volume and know whether each is present. That would be a typical Linux type solution. However, would it be too much

Re: fsck unable to read disk sectors

2010-05-17 Thread Bernd Walter
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:54:17PM +0930, Matt Thyer wrote: > On 12 May 2010 11:16, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:15:13PM +0200, Alexander Best wrote: > > > i've posted a log here which is pretty self explanatory: > > > > > > http://pastebin.com/tn3NiDDW > > > > > [snip]

Re: fsck unable to read disk sectors

2010-05-17 Thread Matt Thyer
On 12 May 2010 11:16, Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:15:13PM +0200, Alexander Best wrote: > > i've posted a log here which is pretty self explanatory: > > > > http://pastebin.com/tn3NiDDW > > [snip] > > One of the typical problems users have is that they forget that > adding

Re: fsck unable to read disk sectors

2010-05-12 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:15:13PM +0200, Alexander Best wrote: >> i've posted a log here which is pretty self explanatory: >> >> http://pastebin.com/tn3NiDDW >> >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Alexander Best >> wrote: >> > the problem i

Re: fsck unable to read disk sectors

2010-05-11 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:15:13PM +0200, Alexander Best wrote: > i've posted a log here which is pretty self explanatory: > > http://pastebin.com/tn3NiDDW > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Alexander Best > wrote: > > the problem is getting more awkward. > > > > if i do `fsck /dev/label/root

Re: fsck unable to read disk sectors

2010-05-11 Thread Alexander Best
i've posted a log here which is pretty self explanatory: http://pastebin.com/tn3NiDDW On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > the problem is getting more awkward. > > if i do `fsck /dev/label/rootfs` fsck complains that it cannot read a > specific sector of my hdd as i mentione

Re: fsck unable to read disk sectors

2010-05-11 Thread Alexander Best
the problem is getting more awkward. if i do `fsck /dev/label/rootfs` fsck complains that it cannot read a specific sector of my hdd as i mentioned before. if i run fsck on the device node directly using `fsck /dev/ada0p3` however, fsck succeeds. what i did was to boot into single user mode with /

Re: fsck unable to read disk sectors

2010-03-29 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 3/29/10, Alexander Best wrote: > hi there, > > when doing fsck on my / fs i get this error: > > "Cannot Read BLK. 471617640" and "The Following Disk Sectors could not be > read: 471617643". after this message the partition gets marked dirty. > > i performed the following steps to verify the pro

fsck unable to read disk sectors

2010-03-29 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, when doing fsck on my / fs i get this error: "Cannot Read BLK. 471617640" and "The Following Disk Sectors could not be read: 471617643". after this message the partition gets marked dirty. i performed the following steps to verify the problem: 1) dd if=/dev/ada0 of=/dev/null bs=1m 2)