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Date:      Mon, 14 May 2007 11:25:31 -0400
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        Oscar Chavarria <cyberbuzzard@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question
Message-ID:  <20070514152531.GA36396@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <716841580705140812l40094c33h74033921cc0a37bd@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <716841580705140812l40094c33h74033921cc0a37bd@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:12:00AM -0600, Oscar Chavarria wrote:

> I lost environmental power temporarily a few days ago, and when it was back
> (almost immediately), the machine restarted without any input from me.
> 
> I had mounted to /home a 30 GB usb 2.0 hdd.
> 
> I tried mounting again since I did not find it in df.
> 
> The prompt is always "WARNING: /home was not properly dismounted.
> 
> The output from dmesg is:
> da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <HITACHI- DK23....> etc....
> WARNING: /home was not properly dismounted.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help to mount the disk again.

Try running fsck on it.
  fsck  /dev/device_name
The device name would be whatever the partition name should be.

That should either fix it or give you some ideas of where
to go next.

////jerry

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> 
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