From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 7 15:25:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DCB61065673 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:25:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from identry@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f224.google.com (mail-fx0-f224.google.com [209.85.220.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E1918FC21 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:25:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm24 with SMTP id 24so1701145fxm.36 for ; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:25:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dT7rnKdi8Y3Ozo+QPq+AZPwujVB6dki7fUKV2joC+Z8=; b=hgQr0qdqmhd4SxG9/t/ZIX926NeJs1skxW46a7aJhdGLb0N8pOKgVTS1bEUYA0Ewoz gDNGdEVTqlchH45oMYEulcj6BiLOWTingHBr8V8XKMgPPToONMCcjsaH05IYh0JfJIjE EcJH7aVhqRzRnLGKwR7+Zjx5wii4zxhcWBMC8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=F2NRvutBPRdFZGaxgAsd/0cLeZkKD1GOrHpOvluYE8WVAKfpdy9TpxqFRoQmgXBr54 O+qWuR7s1xNiGm4v3RLy0mc/Ugu2dcRt8aTTH27aXogFPVhWlXTfwGUtdfQmmgoj6ltj MSKxOWo+rLNYwO8WyUAMZwn5EfnhsYR6xpQvA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: identry@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.97.136 with SMTP id l8mr2145921bkn.181.1249658748630; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:25:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A7C074C.9060303@unsane.co.uk> References: <4d4e09680908061012q6ea8aeacm875c556eaea7a54f@mail.gmail.com> <4A7B1B41.7090507@unsane.co.uk> <4d4e09680908061733v21602321x252a7111a7648ad6@mail.gmail.com> <4A7C074C.9060303@unsane.co.uk> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 11:25:48 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: bad6e2722fd75d16 Message-ID: <4d4e09680908070825h6f42e692t8cf0baa4f10f9cc@mail.gmail.com> From: Identry To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Boot failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:25:51 -0000 >> So I guess the question now is, if I can mount it manually, why >> doesn't it mount during the boot process? >> > I'd give it an fsck or two (more than one has been needed once or > twice) So I've been thinking about how to run fsck... At the moment, I have to boot from an install cd, go into fixit mode, and mount filesystems by hand. I am mounting them to a mount point like /mnt/root and /mnt/home, etc. Do I just do a command like: fsck /mnt/root Should I use any flags? Should I mount the filesystems read write or read only? Thanks: John