Can't fsck disk - now what?
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri May 23 21:57:51 PDT 2003
In the last episode (May 23), David Fleck said:
> Using 4.6 release.
>
> OK, I was browsing happily in Mozilla when the system became completely
> unresponsive - couldn't ping it, couldn't get a response from any of the
> VTs. So I reboot:
>
> Automatic boot in progress...
> [... Several filesystems found clean, messages deleted ... ]
> /dev/ad0s1f: clean, 1201402 free (522 frags, 150110 blocks, 0.0%
> fragmentation)
> /dev/ad0s1f: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=1640145
> /dev/ad0s1f: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
> THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM HAD AN UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY:
> /dev/ad0s1f (/usr)
> Automatic file system check failed . . . help!
>
> "Help", indeed. /usr is not a partition I want to be without.
> I drop to /bin/sh, and discover, to my great unhappy surprise, that
> I don't have fsck in /bin. WTF???
Fsck lives in /sbin, not bin. Answer yes to all the questions (should
only be a couple).
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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