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Date:      Sun, 11 Mar 2001 16:18:51 -0600 (CST)
From:      "J.A. Terranson" <measl@mfn.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Unable to boot/mount root to fixit.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103111613430.10579-100000@greeves.mfn.org>

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Greetings,

	I know *what* I did, and I knew I shouldn't have done it from
prior experience, but, being 1/2 asleep...

	cd /
	chflags -R schg *

	I am no longer able to boot this box: it hangs when trying to
mount /dev/ad0s1e.  Even worse, I am unable to mount from the fixit to try
and undo my mistake. I get an invalid super block error when trying to:

	mount /dev/ad0s1 /mnt
	         or
	mount /dev/ad0s2 /mnt, etc...

	I am in the process o rebuilding the box in question, as I don't
have time to play with it, but I am curious if anyone knows (1) why
chflaging from the root breaks everything, and (2) any way I could have
recovered from this?

Thanks!

-- 
Yours, 
J.A. Terranson
sysadmin@mfn.org

If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they
should give serious consideration towards setting a better example:
Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of
unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in
the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and 
elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire
populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate...
This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States
as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers,
associates, or others.  Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of
those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the
first place...
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