fsck

Gert Cuykens gert.cuykens at gmail.com
Mon Jan 31 07:27:37 PST 2005


On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:39:46 -0600, Henry Miller <hmiller at intradyn.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1/29/2005 at 01:37 Gert Cuykens wrote:
> 
> >i was playing with the py-bittorent thingie and everything froze ?
> >when i rebooted it siad something like bad disk run fsck manually
> >
> >->me panicking
> >
> >when typing fsck enter he started asking things like slavage y/n clear
> y/n
> >
> >pushed enter damn no default answer
> >
> >->me really starting panicking
> >
> >hoping y was the right answer on the multiple chose questions. After
> >pushing many times on y everthing seems to work again ?
> >
> >was y the right answer ?
> 
> I didn't see a reply, so I'll give it my best shot:
> 
> Maybe.   the correct answer to fsck's question is not something anyone
> other than experts can guess at.   Even experts often wish fsck would
> tell them more.  (unfortunately it isn't easy for fsck to give
> meaningful information, it knows something is wrong but not what it
> means to you)
> 
> In the case of salvage, y is normally right.   However some other
> questions n is the right answer.   I'm not enough of an expert to say
> no.
> 
> Best: keep good backups so if/when you make a mistake (which could be
> more than fsck, could be accidently delete a file, or disk crash) you
> can recover.
> 
> I recommend you switch to FreeBSD 5.3 if that is a choice.
> Softupdates means you almost never have to run fsck manually.  It
> really does work.
> 
> py-bittorent CANNOT cause your system to freeze.    However if there is
> something wrong with your system py-bittorent might trigger it.
> 
> Check your hardware.  Perhaps a fan isn't spinning anymore causing your
> system to freeze under load.   Perhaps you have bad memory.   (Good
> luck detecting these, often problems only show up when you are not
> testing)
> 

I am using 5.3 and i did not had enough disk space on the partition
bittorent was using, causeing a system freeze.


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