Totally hosed up filesystem..wtf?

[Derek Ragona]

reboot single user, cd /var/log and delete anything you can there.  Then 
try fsck.

         -Derek


At 07:26 PM 10/27/2006, Jeff Mohler wrote:
>So..last night im workin away, and then the machine gets slow, then
>stops responding to anything.
>
>I can ping it, but no telnet, www...anything.  Hung hard.  Last thing
>I saw in a make buildworld was a 'cant write to filesystem' error..or
>something like that but not a 'no room on device' error.
>
>Have my remote helper power cycle it, as he cant get in either.
>
>Comes up asking for single user shell, get in, and fsck -y fails with:
>
>fsck_ufs: cannot alloc [random # of bytes here]
>
>Searching tells me in dead.
>
>Running 6.1.
>
>
>Help??
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