Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 22:55:17 +0000 From: Leonard Zettel <zettel@acm.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: sequethin@gmail.com Subject: Re: What is fsck trying to tell me? Message-ID: <200509092255.17717.zettel@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <4322A39C.1090001@daleco.biz> References: <200509091210.09717.zettel@acm.org> <200509091445.29301.zettel@acm.org> <4322A39C.1090001@daleco.biz>
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On Saturday 10 September 2005 09:13 am, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Leonard Zettel wrote: > >On Saturday 10 September 2005 12:44 am, Mike Hernandez wrote: > >>Have you tried explicitly telling fsck what file system it's going to > >>be checking? > > > >Duhhhh.... What is the syntax for doing that? > > Assuming that's a serious question, a serious example > would be: > > $ fsck /var > A bit difficult to see how to apply that in the present context. If I understand things correctly, /var designates a "mount point". I have my hardware set up to use swappable hard drives, with the idea of using one drive for backups, mounting it on /mnt for that purpose. But when I try to do that, mount won't mount (without -f). fsck won't fsck either, or at least gives me a message I don't understand. My (somewhat shallow) perusal of what documentation I can find suggests that fsck should be used on an unmounted file system (to guarantee its "quiescence"). So what, other than the device designation, do I hand off to fsck? Or should I force the mount and then use fsck? -LenZ- > HTH, > > Kevin Kinsey > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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