Bill Moran wrote:
Christopher Key <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I'm having some rather strange behaviour with fsck.
When I boot the system, it asserts that all the file systems are clean,
but subsequently running an fsck on /dev/ad8s1e (mounted as /var)
detects errors. Even if this first check is run whilst the file system
is mounted, and is hence run in NO WRITE mode, a second check doesn't
find block errors. If I then unmount the file system and check the
disk, it's fine, as indeed it is if I unmount, remount, then check.
However, if I then reboot, the process repeats, and an fsck immediately
after reboot will find errors again. If I bring the system up in single
user mode, and run fsck either before or after mounting /var, it finds
no errors.
Don't run fsck on mounted filesystems unless they're mounted read-only.
Although, it's possible I misunderstood your description of the problem.
Thanks Eric, Bill,
I must have misunderstood, I was under the impression that running fsck
on a device with a mounted file system would scan, but not actaully
write anything, hence its reporting 'NO WRITE'. I'll reread the fsck
manpage.
Is running fsck -B /dev/ad8s1e safe, as I understand it, this creates a
snapshot of the filesystem and scans that.
Regards,
Chris
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