harddisk problem and/or fsck problem?
Kent Stewart
kstewart at owt.com
Fri Mar 26 11:55:12 PST 2004
On Friday 26 March 2004 10:06 am, Richard Dawes wrote:
> Greetings, fellow FreeBSD users!
>
> Everything so far works fine for me, until I drop into single-
> user mode to prep for making world. Even then, it seems OK,
> except for this alarming output of "fsck -p":
Well, you missed reading something because you are supposed to boot -s
into single user mode. Then, you don't have write access and the fsck
works.
BTW, the whole point of booting into single user mode is to avoid a bad
kernel. When you drop into single user mode, you aren't testing the new
kernel.
Kent
>
> /dev/da0s1a: NO WRITE ACCESS
> /dev/da0s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
>
> I run "fsck /dev/da0s1a", and I'm just told of NO WRITE for the
> fs, and the phases shown without error. But I *can* write
> there -- my / partition.
>
> OK, FYI -- This happens on 4.9-RELEASE and 5.2.1-RELEASE-i386
> both. I have an IBM UltraStar Ultra160 SCSI disk, model no.
> IC35L018UDW210-0 ... Runs on a Tyan S2462 "Thunder K7" dual
> Athlon-MP board, using the GENERIC kernel.
>
> I've run the onboard Adaptec-controller's format and verify
> utilities, which I presume run without error, since they just
> do their thing without error messages and just say when they're
> done.
>
> I install the above via the "miniinst" CDs, cvsup the lastest
> sources, and that's it for usage. But the machine boots and
> runs fine otherwise.
>
> Is this something to really worry about? Is it safe to proceed
> with making world? Should I try forcing fsck to do anything?
> Or, should I try running fsck having booted from CD? Other
> ideas or suggestions?
>
> Thanks all for any help offered! Cheers,
>
> -Rich
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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA
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