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Date:      Fri, 31 Jul 1998 12:19:32 -0500
From:      Jason McNew <jase@clearsail.net>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   mounts in limbo!
Message-ID:  <35C1FCA3.416B46EA@clearsail.net>

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Hello, I'm running 2.2.6-release.
My /var/mail and /var/log mounts appear to be in limbo.  df shows them
mounted, but I don't see any files in the directory.  I'd like to check
the logs, but I can't mount /var/log to look at them.  /var and
/var/spool are different slices off of the same scsi drive, and they
appear to be mounting fine.  Tried agin after rebooting with no luck.  I
could be blind but I diden't find anything about this in the FAQ.  Any
ideas how I can resolve this, or at least a pointer to the correct
manual?

mail# umount /var/mail
umount: /var/mail: Invalid argument
mail# mount /var/mail
/dev/sd0f on /var/mail: Device busy
mail# df
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/wd0s1a     31775    17180    12053    59%    /
/dev/sd1e     8626063   254762  7681216     3%    /home
/dev/sd0e     2980238       22  2741797     0%    /var/spool
/dev/sd0f     2980238   198257  2543562     7%    /var/mail
/dev/sd0g     1986495    68062  1759514     4%    /var/log
/dev/sd0h      678067     5709   618113     1%    /var
/dev/wd0s1e     29727        2    27347     0%    /tmp
/dev/wd0s1f   1674879   235672  1305217    15%    /usr
procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
mail# fsck /dev/sd0f
** /dev/rsd0f
** Last Mounted on /var/mail
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
CLEAN FLAG NOT SET IN SUPERBLOCK
FIX? [yn] n

1249 files, 198257 used, 2781981 free (861 frags, 347640 blocks, 0.0%
fragmentation)
mail# cd /var/mail
mail# ls -l
mail# cd /var/log
mail# ls -l
mail# fstat -f /var/mail
USER     CMD          PID   FD MOUNT      INUM MODE         SZ|DV R/W
root     fstat        351   wd /var      23040 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
root     fstat        351    6 /var      92169 -rw-r--r--  339968  r
jason    tcsh         286   wd /var       7680 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
root     tcsh         203   wd /var      23040 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
jase     tcsh         192   wd /var      76806 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
root     sendmail     146   wd /var      69127 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
root     cron         142   wd /var      76800 drwxr-x---     512  r
root     cron         142    3 /var     115213 -rw-r--r--       4 rw
root     rpc.statd    123    5 /var      92168 -rw-r--r--    4096 rw
root     syslogd       90    8 /var      76801 -rw-------   68893  w

and here is my fstab if it helps:

# Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump
Pass#
/dev/sd1e               /home           ufs     rw              1
2
/dev/sd0e               /var/spool      ufs     rw              0
2
/dev/sd0f               /var/mail       ufs     rw              0
2
/dev/sd0g               /var/log        ufs     rw              0
2
/dev/sd0h               /var            ufs     rw              1
2
/dev/wd0s1b             none            swap    sw              0
0
/dev/wd0s1a             /               ufs     rw              1
1
/dev/wd0s1e             /tmp            ufs     rw              2
2
/dev/wd0s1f             /usr            ufs     rw              2
2
proc                    /proc           procfs  rw              0
0
/dev/wcd0c              /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0
0


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