On Jan 2, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote:
On Jan 1, 2006, at 11:28 PM, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote:
Hello all,
In doing some routine items on my FreeBSD box, it started behaving
oddly. I rebooted and to my surprise, I started receiving many
messages displaying information regarding that /usr has issues. It
puts me directly into single user mode and tells me to run fsck
manually. When I run fsck all by itself, here is what it tells me:
** /dev/ad0s1f
** Last Mounted on /usr
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=496000
UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
CLEAR? [yn]
This is the first time that I have ever run fsck and I have no
idea what this message means or what the best course of action on
CLEAR to take. Any input at all would be greatly appreciated
(FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE if it helps). Thank you all so much for your
assistance.
-Anthony
After not getting any feedback, I decided to do
fsck -y
This returned my machine to usable. Before doing this while I was
just hitting "y" to the questions I did not understand, one of them
mentioned that it had to create a lost+found directory and after a
while that the directory was out of space. It asked me the question
to expand. So, I hit yes. Anyways, after all is said and done, that
filesystem has 500MB of more free space than it did before (it
doesn't take into account the fact that /usr/src is now empty and
the size of lost+found). What does the expand option do? Can I
safely delete lost+found? Like I mentioned before, this is my first
time in going through these types of issues and I have not found
any documentation that I can fully understand on fsck and what it
does. In any event, thank you all for your assistance.
Also, what methods are there in backtracking what the cause of the
errors could have been? How can I tell if there is something wrong
with the hard disk (bad blocks that cannot be used anymore, etc.)? I
suppose what I intend to gather by these questions is if this drive
can still be trusted, or if I should start looking at getting a new
one. Any insight would be appreciated.
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