Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:19:36 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Rod Person <personrp@hotpop.com> Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problem with fsck on CURRENT?? Message-ID: <20070123221935.GZ23068@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20070119173627.15ff4286@atomizer.opensourcebeef.net> References: <20070119173627.15ff4286@atomizer.opensourcebeef.net>
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On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 05:36:27PM -0500, Rod Person wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I'm not sure if this is a problem or is normal but here it is. > > I have an external ATAPI drive that is connected to my machine via > firewire (that case also has a usb2 connection). My system crashed so I > needed to fsck this disk. Now however I start fsck it does not allow me > to answer 'Y' to any of the question - it answer N automatically. > > I've tried starting fsck with -y and that seems to do nothing! The > drive is formatted with a UFS2 file system and I have to invoke fsck > like this: > > fsck -t ufs /mnt > > Otherwise it claims not to be able to tell what file system type it is? > I'm just wondering is this normal for external drives even if they are > formatted with a native file system? Fsck doesn't act this why with my > internal SCSI drives? fsck get's the FS type from /etc/fstab. The other part is already aswered it seems. -- B.Walter http://www.bwct.de http://www.fizon.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de support@fizon.de
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