Re: bad superblock.. system still boots?

On Feb 26, 5:50 pm, "ThanksButNo" <no.no.tha...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 26, 5:13 pm, "libadmin" <BAmbr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have Enterprise 450 and rebooted system over weekend. Complained of
bad superblock (16) on / filesystem. Booted from CDROM and replaced 16
with alternate (32).. Rebooted system and found bad superblock on /usr
so I did same thing. Rebooted and then on /var... No matter what I
tried the system would not boot passed the bad superblock (16) found
on /var.. So, I pressed control-d and did so on the next two error
messages (all bad superblocks, /export/home/, /opt) and system booted
and is functioning.. Is that possible?? WEll, I guess so because it
did... But...

\Bob

Some people will call me crazy, but whenever I get any kind of disk
situation like this, I just run "fsck -y" against the raw partition
and let it go at that.

If fsck can't fix it, it's time for a new disk.

Another thing -- check "/var/adm/messages" to see if there's any error
messages reported about failures reading/writing to the disk. Another
sign that it may be time to replace it.

.

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