Directory not empty

[Loren M. Lang]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:29:17AM +0800, T.F. Cheng wrote:
> man, you are right, I now recall there was a crash
> during the last portupgrade. And there is "
> /dev/ad0s1f: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN
> fsck MANUALLY." in my /var/log. 
> Guess the mystery is solved.
> Then why do I have to reboot first then run bgfsck?
> Can I run this myself without rebooting? 

kill -TERM 1 will send your system into single user mode without
rebooting.  Assuming you haven't done system like increase the
securelevel, you should be able to fsck the drive from here.  I believe
just typing exit will go back for multi-user mode.

> 
> thanks!
> 
> 
> 
>  --- Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> ?g?D?G
> > In the last episode (Feb 25), T.F. Cheng said:
> > > yeah, it's weird. I found that I can rename it (to
> > tmp) then I tried
> > > to del it:
> > > > rm -fr tmp
> > > rm: tmp/qt-x11-free-3.3.4/doc: Directory not empty
> > > rm: tmp/qt-x11-free-3.3.4/src: Directory not empty
> > 
> > Do you use softupdates, and did your system happen
> > to crash after a
> > portupgrade?  I bet if you cd into
> > tmp/qt-x11-free-3.3.4/doc and run ls
> > -la, you'll see something like:
> > 
> > $ ls -la
> > total 2
> > drwx------  4 dan  dan  512 Feb 22 11:00 ./
> > drwxr-xr-x  3 dan  dan  512 Feb 22 11:00 ../
> > 
> > The "." entry should have 2 links in an empty
> > directory (one here, and
> > one in the parent directory).  That's caused be a
> > failed background
> > fsck, which is supposed to reset bad link counts
> > after a crash.  If you
> > check /var/log/messages, you might see something
> > like this:
> > 
> >   PARTIALLY TRUNCATED INODE I=316179
> >   UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck
> > MANUALLY.
> > 
> > Try rebooting and letting the bgfsck run again, or
> > boot into
> > single-user mode and run fsck -p on the filesystem.
> > 
> > -- 
> > 	Dan Nelson
> > 	dnelson at allantgroup.com
> >  
> 
> =====
> Best Regards,
> 
> Tsu-Fan Cheng
> 
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