I was running my FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (160GB HD) on this laptop: http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/dmesg/PB12001901.vhtml
Right now I am swapped out http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/torrent/p5120212.vhtml but I have the problem disk mounted using this: http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/torrent/p5120226.vhtml This is a much older disk with 60GB and $ uname -a FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 $ It makes clunking sounds sometimes, but for the most part it seems to run fine. Some diagnostics on the 160GB HD FB 7.0 that have been done: # mount /dev/da0s4 /mnt/usr # fsck_ufs -y /mnt/usr ** /dev/da0s4 (NO WRITE) ** Last Mounted on /mnt/usr ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=2779162 (4 should be 0) CORRECT? no fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 871186332 bytes for inoinfo # I have been told that doing fsck while mounted is a very bad thing, but I did fsck before the above depicted instantiation of the fsck command and after this and it always did the same thing. I have done fsck using the argument /dev/da0s4, I have done fsck in single user mode (the 160GB hard boots a character based shell, but crashes and reboots during "startx") and always the fsck looks the same. My configuration of the 160GB is a little goofy, in my estimation, just to explain. I currently have three hard drives representing all the times I have installed FreeBSD, two of them are dual booted with MS Vista, and this latest one with 160GB has FreeBSD all to itself, but when I was creating it, I mistook partitions for slices so I configured 4 partitions, leaving some of the disk unallocated thinking that would be good for that 10% utilization thing. I mount three partitions on /, /var, and /usr; respectively and the last one as swap. I learned the vi editor in 1985 and tend to recount the flavor of unix as "evax" but at this point I wonder if this "evax" concept is mistaken. I have done a bunch of c programming in university courses, but also spent some time doing molecular biology but they had me on a SUN SPARCstation I guess. Didn't mess with that source code. Anyway. Sorry for not being concise. I thought maybe my background might be useful information. I was told to do another diagnostic, alleged to pin the disk down as having no bad sectors: # dd if=/dev/da0 bs=65536 of=/dev/null 2442045+1 records in 2442045+1 records out 160041885696 bytes transferred in 5718.122211 secs (27988539 bytes/sec) # echo $? 0 # I was told that the fact that it returns 0 was good. I also tried the port called recoverdisk, but that was taking extremely long. I accidently disconnected the USB port # /usr/src/tools/tools/recoverdisk zsh: permission denied: /usr/src/tools/tools/recoverdisk # set -o vi # ls /usr/src/tools/tools/recoverdisk Makefile recoverdisk.1 recoverdisk.c # cd /usr/src/tools/tools/recoverdisk # make Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/src/tools/tools/recoverdisk cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wsystem-headers -Werror -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wreturn-type -Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings -Wswitch -Wshadow -Wcast-align -Wunused-parameter -Wchar-subscripts -Winline -Wnested-externs -Wredundant-decls -c recoverdisk.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wsystem-headers -Werror -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wreturn-type -Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings -Wswitch -Wshadow -Wcast-align -Wunused-parameter -Wchar-subscripts -Winline -Wnested-externs -Wredundant-decls -o recoverdisk recoverdisk.o gzip -cn recoverdisk.1 > recoverdisk.1.gz # ls Makefile recoverdisk.1 recoverdisk.c recoverdisk recoverdisk.1.gz recoverdisk.o # ./recoverdisk usage: recoverdisk [-r worklist] [-w worklist] source-drive [destination] # ./recoverdisk /dev/da0s4 start size len state done remaining % done 590348288 1048576 134551002112 0 590348288 134551002112 0.0043684 It had run for perhaps half an hour and still was only 0.3% done or so. finally, the guy downstairs told me to debug the kernel so I found this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-gdb.html and after mounting the /usr partition I am here: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 21360 Jun 22 10:30 yarrow.o # kgdb /mnt/nexstar/obj/usr/src/sys/KV_KERN/kernel.debug vmcore.12 [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefined symbol "ps_pglobal_lookup"] GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd". Unread portion of the kernel message buffer: dev = ad0s4d, block = 1, fs = /usr panic: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block cpuid = 0 Uptime: 8m2s Physical memory: 1010 MB Dumping 78 MB: 63 47 31 15 #0 0x00000000 in ?? () (kgdb) ::sigh:: I was figuring I would try again, but right now I am running the intermediary (120GB) HD.. let me reacquaint you with my disks: relative age capacity dual boot? partition 1 partition 2 notes oldest 60GB yes FreeBSD 6.2 Vista makes the gnome (operational) (broken) clunking noises intermediate 120GB yes Vista FreeBSD (6.3?) (running now) (broken) newest 160GB no FreeBSD 7.0 n/a subject of this KDE (won't start) question - Accept and Award Points<http://www.experts-exchange.com/Storage/Hard_Drives/splitPoints.jsp?qid=23798083&aid=22692235> _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
