Snapshots not being created... [brooks@one-eyed-alien.net: Re:
Drives always come up dirty after shutdown on 6.2-PRERELEASE.]
Eric Anderson
anderson at centtech.com
Mon Oct 2 08:08:42 PDT 2006
Can you send more information, like:
tunefs -p /var
grep var /etc/fstab
mount | grep var
Thanks!
Eric
On 10/02/06 10:03, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> It looks like snapshots are failing on my laptop, so background fscks
> don't work :/. Can someone help me get to the bottom of it please?
>
> Thanks :).
> Joe
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> -----
>
> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 09:58:04 -0500
> From: Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net>
> To: Josef Karthauser <joe at FreeBSD.org>,
> Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net>, stable at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Drives always come up dirty after shutdown on 6.2-PRERELEASE.
>
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:10:10PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:44:07AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:16:12PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
>>>> Hey guys,
>>>>
>>>> I'm not really on the ball with reading the lists now-a-days, and so
>>>> I've not idea whether this has been discussed already.
>>>>
>>>> On my laptop running 6.2-PRERELEASE the drives always mount dirty, which
>>>> suggests that they are not being shutdown clean; however the machine
>>>> always syncs the disks and switches itself off after a 'shutdown -p
>>>> now', and so I'm not sure what it could be.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone else seen this?
>>> I haven't seen any other reports of this. Have you tried running a
>>> "fsck -f" on the drives? It's possible there's a latent error that
>>> isn't being fixed by bgfsck.
>>>
>> Closer investigation reveals that I've getting this error:
>>
>> laptop# fsck -B /var
>> background fsck lacks a snapshot
>>
>> So, that explains it. The background fsck isn't running. So, any ideas
>> why it isn't snapshotting?
>>
>> laptop# ls -ld /var/.snap
>> drwxrwx--- 2 root operator 512 Oct 2 12:09 /var/.snap
>
> This message appears to be the result of fsck thinking it created a
> snapshot, but not actually doing so. You might try asking over on -fs.
>
> -- Brooks
>
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
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