On Monday 15 May 2006 15:00, gareth wrote: > hi, this box has had far too many hard reboots, but can anyone shed some > light on whether this's inconsistent? i boot into single user mode,
everything is mounted read-only, > run fsck and fix all the partitions. rerunning fsck shows no more problems. > mounting the filesystems and running fsck shows no problems. but when > i reboot into normal mode, where everything is mounted read-write for normal use > and run fsck on these 2 particular partitions: > (and rebooting into single user mode again doesn't help). > You cannot fsck a read-write mounted filesystem. The kernel is using it and will be in a state where fsck will think it has errors. Umount the filesystem first, check it then. Αlternatively you can snapshot it, and fsck -n the_snapshot HTH, Nikos _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
