On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:37:24 +0100, "Andy Wodfer" <wod...@gmail.com> wrote: > Should I run fsck -y? Is it safe to do so?
At least, fsck will do its best to repair the defective file system. As you have seen from the messages, you will surely lose some files when their information gets cleared. If you use -y, fsck is allowed to do anything it considers neccessary doing. You could use fsck in preen mode (-p) to have less defects corrected. If it's possible, try to backup all important data. If fsck deletes something, you could restore it afterwards. Your goal should be to get your file system into a consistent state again. Worse kinds of data loss can follow. It hurts, I know it... :-( -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"