In the last episode (Jan 16), The-IRC FreeBSD said: > I am sorry if I am asking a question that might have been brought up > before I have attempted to research my issue but it has many angles it > might be listed under so please bare with me. > > We have had ongoing problems with UFS Errors on our root partition (and > any additional partition that did not have soft-updates enabled by > default) and we recently had a problem with a secondary drive that housed > home directories completely filled up and then everything locked up due-to > huge CPU and Memory usage because nothing was able to write to the drive > but when the server was rebooted it failed to bootup because of critical > errors on the root partition. > > We have /etc and /usr on the root partition and our home/var partitions > mistakenly do not have soft-updates flag set. > > ::dmesg:: > http://the-irc.com/dmesg > > ::mount:: > /dev/ad4s1a on / (ufs, local) > devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel) > /dev/ad4s1d on /home (ufs, local, with quotas) > /dev/ad4s1e on /tmp (ufs, local, noexec, nosuid, soft-updates) > /dev/ad4s1f on /var (ufs, local) > devfs on /var/named/dev (devfs, local, multilabel) > procfs on /proc (procfs, local) > /dev/ad0s1e on /Backups (ufs, local, soft-updates) > /dev/ad0s1d on /root (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > ::fsck /:: > ** /dev/ad4s1a (NO WRITE)
fsck'ing a filesystem that is currently mounted read-write will always produce errors. Boot in single-user mode if you want to check the root filesystem or other fs'es that you can't dismount in multi-user mode. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"