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. > 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. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ 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"