Again: fsck_ffs memory requirements

[Polytropon]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:49:17 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
>  > On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:23:41 +0200, Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>  > > Increase kern.maxdsiz. 
>  > 
>  > It seems that I don't have kern.maxdsiz:
>  > 
>  >         # sysctl kern.maxdsiz
>  >         sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.maxdsiz'
>  > 
>  > Am I looking at the wrong place? Allthough I've been using
>  > FreeBSD since 4.0, it seems that I got a "little" stupid over
>  > the years... :-/
> 
> It's a loader tunable, so you must put it in /boot/loader.conf.

I put a value of ca. 1.5 GB into the loader's config file
and that solved the problem. Thanks!



> Best regards, and good luck with your recovery!

Allthough fsck_ffs 5 does seem to be able to calloc() the needed
memory, it fails with the same message as fsck_ffs 7:

	fsck_ffs: bad inode number 306176 to nextinode

Don't know what to do next. I may gather all information I
have, write al little "story" and bring this topic up here
next week. Maybe someone has better ideas than me.



> PS:  Better make good backups next time.

More precise: Better make _at least any_ backups. :-) More than
5 years without any (!) problem with FreeBSD and now this stupid
problem... :-(



-- 
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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