Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> writes: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 09:10:51PM +0200, Divan Santana wrote: > >> Greetings and happy December :) >> >> I have a 3.5TB ffs mounted at /data which is specified in fstab. >> >> When there is a power outage this file system corrupts (I'll install >> another UPS shortly). >> >> Is it possible to fsck_ffs a 3.5TB file system from the boot rescue >> environment? >> >> When I've tried before I've got an error like: >> >> "cannot alloc bytes" >> >> If one can get the system to boot up normally, then one can fsck_ffs >> with no such error.
> You need a large ulimit -d. fsck_ffs itself does do not set that. > but when called trough fsck fsck will take care. So use fsck. Ah, noted, will try next time it happens, thanks!
