fsck_ufs running too often

[Mark Saad]

On Jun 22, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Leonardo M. Ramé <martinrame at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi, since a few of days ago, I noticed my home server turns very slow more than once a day, so every time I run "top" to see what's processes are running, I can see fsck_ufs at the very top, and the hard drive working like mad.
> 
> I've checked my crontab and there's nothing related to fsck_ufs, where can I start searching for the cause of the problem?, I thought this process should run only at boot or shutdown, but this time it is running -apparently- without a cause.
> 
>  
> uname -a:
> FreeBSD server.my.local 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan  3 07:46:30 UTC 2012     root at farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Leonardo M. Ramé
> http://leonardorame.blogspot.com
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Can you tell us more about your server . Does its crash or reboot unexpectedly ? Is this an ungraded server , was it FreeBSD 6,7, or 8 prior ? Also do you have any ufs1 file systems mounted?

Please send  the output from mount -t ufs and your dmesg . 

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