7 Dec
1995
7 Dec
'95
4:47 a.m.
Howdy -
From: "Danny R. Brown"
<sysyphus(a)crl.com>
When I do a "reboot" the system declares that /dev/ra0f has an
undefined inconsistency (during fsck). It tells me to run fsck
manually, then aborts before starting the daemons.
What aborts? If by 'abort' you mean that the process of the system
coming up ceases and you get dropped into a single user shell then
that's exactly what should happen.
I have dchecked, ichecked and fscked /dev/ra0f, and it
seems to
be a happy partition.
Ok - at that point if a manual "fsck /dev/rra0f" (and you should be
using the raw (rra) form of the device) works, then all you need to
do is hit a ^D and the system will finish coming up to a multi user
state.
Hmmm - I think we'll need some more information before hazarding a
guess as to what's not working right. The contents of /etc/fstab
and the current disklabel would be good starting points.
ra0f starts on an even cylinder boundary. It has one
file which
occupies some 54% of the space on it.
reboot -f brings everything up normally.
Well, yes, it will - by bypassing all filesystem checks. Usually
that'll work ok - but it's not something to do after a crash or
a power failure.
this boo-boo. Looking through the man pages did not
point me in
any yet untried direction. I did encounter a 'bad block' on /dev/ra0d,
Hmmm - a bad block? Shouldn't be related to anything in ra0f unless
you've accidentally created overlapping partitions. If that were
the case though I'd expect massive and widespread corruption.
What was the error when the bad block was encountered? If this is
an MSCP disk you'll need to find the MicroPDP-11 Formatter and
see if it will revector the bad sector for you (BSD MSCP drivers
can not do this - probably just as well because I've heard it's
fiendishly difficult and if you get it wrong you've hosed your
drive).
Steven Schultz
sms(a)wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com