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- From: xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Problem with ill-behaved disks
- Summary: Disk and rebuild
- Keywords: corrupted fsck
- Message-ID: <42668@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 05:53:03 GMT
- References: <justin.724558528@mik.uky.edu>
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- Organization: Arete Associates, San Diego
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- In article <justin.724558528@mik.uky.edu> justin@nx30.mik.uky.edu (justin sullivan) writes:
- >After a major crash last week, I booted from CD-ROM and rebuilt both
- >disks (1.5GB each, / and /users) through the install program that pops up
- >
- >Reinstalled the system, restored the /users backup tape, and everything
- >works fine - or so it would seem. When I run fsck on the root disk,
- >it gives problems. fsck -p gives all kinds of problems and ends with
- >a REBOOT IMMEDIATELY-type message (reboot -n), which I've done a few times
- >now, but the problems don't go away. fsck and fsck -p on the /users disk
- >brings up minor problems, but there shouldn't be any.
-
- You can only run an fsck on an unmounted file system. You can't
- unmount the / directory. If you want to run fsck manually, use the
- shutdown program to drop into "init 0" state, type "sync" a LOT, then
- cycle power...
-
- Tony Burzio
- Arete Associates
- San Diego, CA
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