Sun Microsystems Sun Workstation 100U System Manager's Manual page 304

Fsck - UNIX File System Checker
Fsck Error Conditions
Can't stat F
Can't make senBe out
01 name F
F ,ek
's request for statistics about the file system
F
failed. When running manually, it ignores
this file system and continues checking the next file system given. Check access modes of F.
Can't open F
F,ck's request attempt to open the file system F failed. When running manually, it ignores this
file system and continues checking the next file system given. Check access modes of F.
F: (NO WRITE)
Either the -n flag was specified or /,ck's attempt to open the file system F for writing failed.
When running manually, all the diagnostics are printed out, but no modifications are attempted
to fix them.
file is not a block or character device; OK
You have given
f,ek
a regular file name by mistake. Check the type of the file specified.
Possible responses to the OK prompt are:
YES
Ignore this error condition.
NO ignore this file system and continues checking the next file system given.
One of the following messages will appear:
MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
NCG OUT OF RANGE
CPG OUT OF RANGE
NSECT
<
1
NTRAK
<
1
SPC DOES NOT JIVE w/NTRAK*NSECT
INODES NOT MULTIPLE OF A BLOCK
IMPLIES MORE INODE THAN DATA BLOCKS
NCYL DOES NOT JIVE WITH NCG*CPG
FPG DOES NOT JIVE WITH CPG ~ SPC
SIZE PREPOSTEROUSLY SMALL
SIZE PREPOSTEROUSLY LARGE
CGSIZE INCORRECT
CSSIZE INCORRECT
and will be followed by the message:
F: BAD SUPER BLOCK: B
USE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE
SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE Isck(8).
The super block has been corrupted. An alternative super block must be selected from among
those listed by
new/,
(8) when the file system was created. For file systems with a blocksize less
than 32K, specifying -b32 is a good first choice.
CAN NOT SEEK: BLK B (CONTINUE)
F,ek's request for moving to a specified block number B in the file system failed. This should
never happen.
See
a
guru.
28 July 1983
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