"Loren M. Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
The disk will still be mounted read-write. It would be good to umount(8) it before using fsck(8) on it. Then, mounting it again before returning to multi-user mode will be necessary. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
