Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!robohack!nixter!dumais
From: dumais@nixter.UUCP (Paul E. Dumais)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: fsck of root partition won't work
Message-ID: <1990Mar23.061721.5345@nixter.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 90 06:17:21 GMT
References: <1990Mar22.155559.25638@asterix.drev.dnd.ca> <206@creatures.cs.vt.edu>
Organization: The Computing Centre with a Sense of Humor!
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In article <206@creatures.cs.vt.edu> davism@creatures.cs.vt.edu (Mat Davis) writes:
> In article <1990Mar22.155559.25638@asterix.drev.dnd.ca> louis@asterix.drev.dnd.ca (Louis Demers) writes:
> >We are experiencing disappearing partitions. In an effort to
> >understand what is happening, we ran fsck on / and got
> >the following after the phase.
[deleted]

> I've seen this once on one of my machines; if you keep answering 'y' many,
> many times the fsck will eventually finish, but then it will reboot the
> machine and the same thing will happen.  After going through this cycle
> about six times, everything finally cleared up (just keep typing 'y').
> 
> To speed the entire process, you can run fsck from sash to avoid the
> overhead of launching A/UX, doing the fsck, and then rebooting over and
> over.
> 
> 	Mat


You will save your right index finger any your "Y" key if you type
fsck -y /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 which answers YES to all of the questions that 
arise. Mat is correct that running this from the SASH (or A/UX Startup 2.0)
incures much less overhead.

-ped-
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