Booting Problem

[Rishi Chopra]

Here's some questions:

If the server was idle (e.g. absolutely no processes running aside from 
login shell and terminal and no disk access occurring) does it make 
sense that the filesystem would have had a problem after being 
improperly unmounted?

Also, how long should an 'fsck' on a 500GB partition take?  It's been 
running for almost 12 hours now, and the latest output is still "Phase 1 
- check blocks and sizes"; is something wrong or is fsck still doing its 
thing?

Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 01:09:22 -0800
> Rishi Chopra <rchopra at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I booted into single-user mode and ran 'fsck' - the latest output to the 
>>terminal says:
>>
>>**** 	FILE SYSTEM MARKED CLEAN 	****
>>	/dev/da0s1e
>>	Last Mounted on /usr
>>	Phase 1 - check blocks and sizes
>>
>>****	FILE SYSTEM STILL DIRTY		****
> 
> 
> Can't be only this. It should have outputted something else between
> Phase 1 and FILE SYSTEM STILL DIRTY.
> 
> 
>>Will fsck continue attempting to fix the filesystem?  Have I suffered a 
>>total loss or is fsck still doing its thing?
> 
> 
> Read man fsck and its see also section.
> 
> 
> 

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Rishi Chopra
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra