On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote:

>  > Fine by me. What I'm unhappy with is the operating system apparently
>  > deliberately going out of its way to make things difficult, and not
>  > going even the slightest bit out of its way to make things easier.
>  > I'm not asking for a lot here.
> 
> FWIW, I happen to agree with you... fsck can be a mite intimidating, esp.
> considering that when you're interacting with it, you're typically thinking
> "Oh, sh*t.  I hope I didn't lose _too_ much..."

Speaking of which, I had a fight with fsck last night myself.  So far,
it's still winning.  Essentially, mount keeps telling me that /dev/sd0a
isn't clean, and that I should run fsck(8).  So I boot into single-user
mode, do an fsck -f, it chugs away, and happily marks both my filesystems
clean.  I then try to mount the drives, and mount again tells me that
/dev/sd0a isn't clean.

Anybody have any advice?  Is my disk going bad?

-Bill

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