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From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:39:44 GMT
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Subject: Re: FSCK & "No write access"
To: John <papalia@udel.edu>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 10/25/00, 10:19:59 PM, John <papalia@udel.edu> wrote regarding FSCK &=
=20
"No write access":


> Hi all,

> Out of curiosity and for sake of just checking my system to see how it=
=20
was
> doing, I was attempting to run fsck, but I am getting errors as shown =

here:

> merlin# fsck -fp /usr
> /dev/da0g: NO WRITE ACCESS
> /dev/da0g: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.

> Some may ask why I was trying to use the -f, and the answer is that I =

was
> only trying that after I had the same results with just a -p.  So, in
> tooling around I thought to look at the /etc/fstab, which looks ok:

> merlin# cat /etc/fstab
> # Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump  =
=20
 Pass#
> /dev/da0b               none            swap    sw              0     =
=20
 0
> /dev/da0a               /               ufs     rw              1     =
=20
 1
> /dev/da0e               /cvs            ufs     rw              2     =
=20
 2
> /dev/da0g               /usr            ufs     rw              2     =
=20
 2
> /dev/da0f               /var            ufs     rw,nosuid       2     =
=20
 2
> proc                    /proc           procfs  rw              0     =
=20
 0
> /dev/cd0c               /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0     =
=20
 0
> /dev/da1c               /home           ufs     rw,nosuid       0     =
=20
 0

> If I try to run fsck without any switches, I still get a read-only=20
message:

> merlin# fsck /usr
> ** /dev/da0g (NO WRITE)
> (etc).


<dumb question>

Surely you have done this upon your **unmounted** filesystems (eg=20
right after booting in single user mode)?

</dumb question>

Best regards,
Salvo





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