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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!02-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!01-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!news.iif.hu!isyshu!hole.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: weird fsck results Date: 14 Aug 1996 07:17:11 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4uruhn$891@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4uqsm1$ikk@news.missouri.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E paul@students.missouri.edu (Paul Saab) wrote: > /dev/rsd0a: FREE BLK COUNT(S) WRONG IN SUPERBLK (SALVAGED) > /dev/rsd0a: CLEAN FLAG NOT SET IN SUPERBLOCK (FIXED) > /dev/rsd0a: 31031 files, 456466 used, 672661 free (2517 frags, 83768 blocks, > 0.2% fragmentation) > I thought the "FREE BLK COUNT(S) WRONG IN SUPERBLK (SALVAGED)" was > strange so I did some more disk intensive stuff, ran fsck -p and I > got the same output as above. You say you are running fsck on a _live_ (i.e. mounted) file system? Then you get what you deserve. You could easily trash the entire file system by this. If you really think you know how to interpret the results (and you've just proven us that you don't know it :), the best you can run on a live file system is ``fsck -n'', so it won't write anything back. Btw., the ``FREE BLK COUNT(S) WRONG'' message is benign even after a crash, it basically means that the statistics between the free block map and the count in the superblock mismatched. This is always fixable. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)