fsck problems on RS/6000

[Glenn R. Stone]

In <9150 at adobe.UUCP> jensen at adobe.com (Freddy Jensen) writes:


>    >  When I run fsck (AIX 3.1.1, RS/6000)  I sometimes get a whole
>    >  bunch of these messages:
>    >
>    >Unref file (NOT CLEARED)
>    >Unref file  I=55565  owner=root mode=120777
>    >size=24 mtime=Dec 05 11:34 1990  (NOT RECONNECTED)
>   I just noticed that I get this message from fsck, when I start it up:
>    ** Checking /dev/hd4 (/) MOUNTED FILE SYSTEM; WRITING SUPPRESSED;

Boot from floppy, select system maintenance, run /etc/continue, and
fsck from there.  That way you're running off the ramdisk, not the
root file system.

-- Glenn R. Stone (gs26 at prism.gatech.edu)