strange dump (dark matter?)
Scott Mitchell
scott+freebsd at fishballoon.org
Thu Oct 23 02:11:18 PDT 2003
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:01:51PM -0400, Ryan Sandridge wrote:
> Well, as a newbie, it only took me about 10 hours to figure out on my
> own that I needed to run fsck. It showed me that I had an unreferenced
> file hiding on my disk; however fsck never seemed to work as
> documented. I couldn't ever run it with 'fsck -p', I always received
> (and still do receive):
>
> /dev/ad0s1g: NO WRITE ACCESS
> /dev/ad0s1g: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
>
> and when I ran it with just 'fsck', it would always answer "no" to the
> prompts to fix the problems without giving me an opportunity to fix it.
> No I didn't use the -n flag to force no responses, and I am aware of
> the -y flag, but the documentation warns against doing this. Finally I
> threw my hands up, and rebooted, which seemed to clear up the
> unreferenced file.
You should only be running fsck on unmounted filesystems, or those mounted
read-only. Looks like you tried to fsck a mounted filesystem?
Cheers,
Scott
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