From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 25 16:21:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C1D837B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:21:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e9PNLg001099; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:21:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:21:42 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: John Cc: Salvo Bartolotta , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FSCK & "No write access" Message-ID: <20001025162142.E28123@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001025171553.00ae5880@mail.udel.edu> <4.3.2.7.2.20001025171553.00ae5880@mail.udel.edu> <20001025.22394400@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20001025183208.00ae86c0@mail.udel.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001025183208.00ae86c0@mail.udel.edu>; from papalia@udel.edu on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 06:38:30PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * John [001025 15:40] wrote: > At 10:39 PM 10/25/2000 +0000, Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > > > > > If I try to run fsck without any switches, I still get a read-only > >message: > > > > > merlin# fsck /usr > > > ** /dev/da0g (NO WRITE) > > > (etc). > > > > > > > > > >Surely you have done this upon your **unmounted** filesystems (eg > >right after booting in single user mode)? > > > > > > No suck luck. I'm up-and-running in 'multi-user mode'. In each of the > existing FS's (/, /usr, /home, /cvs, and /var) I am fully able to 'cp', > 'mv', and 'touch' files. I can also use vi in any of those directories as > well to create new files. Don't run fsck on a mounted filesystem. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message