fsck says "UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY"

[Leon Messner]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:05:06PM +1000, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> After a server lost power unexpectedly (read: someone pulled the plug  
> out), on reboot
> the automatic fsck failed with "UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY" as
> the message. Running fsck interactively doesn't seem to be able to  
> fix it..
> 
> Every time in phase one it says:
> 
> CANNOT READ: BLK 66322496
> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
<snip> 
> Any ideas on what I could try to fix this?
> 

You could have a look at tunefs(8) and turn soft updates off for
fsck'ing.

HTH
Leon

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