Problem with corrupt filesystem-any good log funktion?

[David Gerard]

Fredrik Andersson wrote:

> Have problem that the filesystem be corrupt, but don't know why!
> Look's that the server restart sometime and after it comes too the line
> "Enter full patchname of shell or Return for /bin/sh"
> After pushing return I do an fsck too repair the corrupt filesystem. After this all seems working ok again. 
> Is there any good logging funktion that can get more facts about what can be the problem!??
> The system is  4.9-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p5 #0


You can check bugs on freebsd.org.

I had a similar problem with 5.3 beta 5 - I have an MSDOS disk. fsck
went looking for /sbin/fsck_msdos , but the binary is actually called
/sbin/fsck_msdosfs . Once I got the system started, doing

     ln -s  /sbin/fsck_msdosfs /sbin/fsck_msdos

fixed that one.


- d.