fsck failed to sync inodes

[Chuck Swiger]

Hi--

On Jan 15, 2010, at 12:27 PM, gahn wrote:
> I booted the system into single user mode and tried to clean up one of my corrupted file system:
> 
> fsck -y /dev/ad1s1f
> 
> but in the end, the file system is still dirty. anything else I can do to salvage the data? 

You're not providing enough details to give specific advice.

If this filesystem is already mounted as /usr (which is the default mountpoint for an "f" partition), you might try booting from CD and running fsck from there to ensure that you are not trying to fsck a mounted filesystem.  If your hard drive is failing and fsck cannot fix issues because it can't write the changes to disk, you should attempt to copy the entire drive onto a replacement drive and fsck that instead.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck