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Old 29th January 2009
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Originally Posted by bsdme2 View Post
There’s no need to run fsck in single-user mode like this unless during bootup FreeBSD tells you that there’s a filesystem
error which it can’t handle. Make a note of which partition is at fault, reboot into single user mode, and run fsck on that partition only.
You can't run fsck on a mounted filesystem. You don't have to drop to single-user mode, but it makes it a lot easier if you do.
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