From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 14 16:33:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4C8316A404 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 16:33:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from smtp2.utdallas.edu (smtp2.utdallas.edu [129.110.10.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30DC13C45D for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 16:33:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from utd59514.utdallas.edu (utd59514.utdallas.edu [129.110.3.28]) by smtp2.utdallas.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 488375C1E8; Mon, 14 May 2007 11:33:16 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:33:16 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl To: Jerry McAllister , Oscar Chavarria Message-ID: <0E29F8CF45F72559F50BB1F5@utd59514.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070514160547.GA36516@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <716841580705140812l40094c33h74033921cc0a37bd@mail.gmail.com> <46488100.3040502@webanoide.org> <716841580705140838v54fa3ef8k282332100cfad562@mail.gmail.com> <464884B1.8050304@webanoide.org> <716841580705140858w4084f36o87cb2ab96649857@mail.gmail.com> <20070514160547.GA36516@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; boundary="==========6C7080BFD6C2D50A6767==========" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Mikhail Goriachev , FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 16:33:16 -0000 --==========6C7080BFD6C2D50A6767========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On Monday, May 14, 2007 12:05:47 -0400 Jerry McAllister = wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:58:54AM -0600, Oscar Chavarria wrote: > >> ls /dev/da0s1 >> /dev/da0s1 > > Again, please do not top post. It makes it very hard to have any > idea what you are referring to. The entire context of the > conversation gets lost. > > In this case, what do you mean? > You just did an ls of a file name and found that it responsed > with the file name. That is normal. So, what? > > Try doing ls /dev/da0s* and see what you get. > > Secondly, nowdays, the devfs system only makes devices that are > in use and makes them on the fly. I haven't dug around in that > since the change since it was changed from the old MAKEDEV system > so I may be wrong, but I would not be surprised if /dev/da0s1d was > not there until after things were fixed up. > > So, try the fsck as Mikhail suggested -- with the partition name. > I'm wondering if he shouldn't try umount /home first. ---- Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ --==========6C7080BFD6C2D50A6767==========--