[false alarm] Re: harddisk dying?

[Rene Ladan]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 03:47:24PM +0200, r.c.ladan at student.tue.nl wrote:
> However, if I boot into multi user, fsck_ufs gives error messages,
> allthough at boot time the file system is clean. The messages vary:
> 
> ** /dev/ad0s1e (NO WRITE)
> ** Last Mounted on /var
> ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
> ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
> ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
> ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
> UNREF FILE I=4241  OWNER=mysql MODE=100600
> SIZE=2349 MTIME=Oct  4 11:41 2004 
> CLEAR? no
> 
> UNREF FILE I=4257  OWNER=mysql MODE=100600
> SIZE=0 MTIME=Oct  4 11:37 2004 
> CLEAR? no
> 
> UNREF FILE I=4272  OWNER=mysql MODE=100600
> SIZE=0 MTIME=Oct  4 11:37 2004 
> CLEAR? no
> 
> ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
>2443 files, 39110 used, 25297 free (1481 frags, 2977 blocks, 2.3% fragmentation)

The harddisk _is_ ok.  I recalled the soft update time lag.  After doing
  cat /dev/random >/tmp/rubbish
my thoughts were confirmed.

Sorry for the noise.

Rene