Re: fsck says "UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY"

2005-09-08 Thread Leon Messner
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:05:06PM +1000, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> After a server lost power unexpectedly (read: someone pulled the plug  
> out), on reboot
> the automatic fsck failed with "UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY" as
> the message. Running fsck interactively doesn't seem to be able to  
> fix it..
> 
> Every time in phase one it says:
> 
> CANNOT READ: BLK 66322496
> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
 
> Any ideas on what I could try to fix this?
> 

You could have a look at tunefs(8) and turn soft updates off for
fsck'ing.

HTH
Leon

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Re: fsck says "UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY"

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson

At 03:49 PM 8/11/2005, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:



THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 66322510,



Sounds like a HW issue to me.



Anyway to confirm this? It is not a very old drive and the filesystem
is still readable,
I suppose it could have developed some bad sectors..


If you have another machine you can boot from, or another disk, you can 
install the smartmontools port (/usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools) and use 
that to see what the status of the drive is.


-Glenn



Is there a way to flag them as bad without formating the drive?
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Re: fsck says "UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY"

2005-08-11 Thread Jerahmy Pocott




THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 66322510,




Sounds like a HW issue to me.



Anyway to confirm this? It is not a very old drive and the filesystem  
is still readable,

I suppose it could have developed some bad sectors..

Is there a way to flag them as bad without formating the drive?
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Re: fsck says "UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY"

2005-08-10 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC


On Aug 10, 2005, at 11:05 PM, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:


THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 66322510,



Sounds like a HW issue to me.
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