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by **Sean Hamilto** » Tue, 03 Sep 2002 09:44:50

Greetings,

Last night, I firewalled myself out of my freebsd router. Upon rebooting it,
it made the familiar fsck-grinding noise. I left it going overnight, and
well into today, but it just continued grinding. I'm not sure if it was the
root partition of /usr, both are on the same drive. Regardless, what's going
on? I plugged in a video card and monitor, booted my generic kernel, and it
was done fscking within a few seconds.

sh

by **Sean Hamilto** » Tue, 03 Sep 2002 10:06:17

> Last night, I firewalled myself out of my freebsd router. Upon rebooting
it,
> it made the familiar fsck-grinding noise. I left it going overnight, and

Just to clarify, it was actually not the fsck-grinding noise. It was the
familiar noise I hear when this box loses power. It's a very consistent,
regular grinding, as if the drive head is flying back and forth at a steady
rate, quite *inconsistent* with fsck, which is sort of an erratic sound
(which quickly finishes...)

sh

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