Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:33:16 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, Oscar Chavarria <cyberbuzzard@gmail.com> Cc: Mikhail Goriachev <mikhailg@webanoide.org>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question 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>
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--==========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 <jerrymc@msu.edu> = 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==========--
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