Re: fsck reports errors on clean filesystem (mounted rw)

2010-09-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:16:53 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi wrote: > There are exactly _four_ possible causes of file-system > inconsistencies. 1) You can have an unexpected loss of power, where > the CPU stops working before it as time to write the above-mentioned > 'memory-resident' data to disk. T

Re: fsck reports errors on clean filesystem (mounted rw)

2010-09-12 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Sep 10 17:51:18 2010 > From: cronfy > Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:27:46 +0400 > To: freebsd-questions > Subject: fsck reports errors on clean filesystem (mounted rw) > > Hello. > > I ran fsck on my filesystems while system

Re: fsck reports errors on clean filesystem (mounted rw)

2010-09-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 10, 2010, at 3:27 PM, cronfy wrote: > 1. Can I be sure my filesystem is consistent? Reasonably. > 2. If fsck reports nonexistent errors (and probably will try to fix > them if asked), isn't it even danger to run fsck on running system? Running fsck in foreground mode on a mounted filesyst

fsck reports errors on clean filesystem (mounted rw)

2010-09-10 Thread cronfy
Hello. I ran fsck on my filesystems while system was running (partitons were mounted rw with moderate FS usage). fsck reported there were errors (INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT and others). I decided to reboot to single mode and check all filesystems. But in single mode fsck did not find any errors. 1. C