From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 16 17:43:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA00859 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 17:43:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA00853 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 17:43:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberte@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.5/8.8.4) id CAA06471; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 02:43:27 +0100 (MEZ) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199711170143.CAA06471@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: Can't mount /dev/sd1s1a etc In-Reply-To: <199711162124.VAA00466@main.put.com> from Robert Flavin at "Nov 16, 97 09:24:27 pm" To: ribo@main.put.com (Robert Flavin) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 02:43:27 +0100 (MEZ) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It was Robert Flavin who wrote: > > I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 and am having problems with disks. > There are about 6 SCSI disks on 2 or 3 contoller channels. The > command : > > mount /dev/sd1s1a /mnt > > and various other combinations of sd1s2 sd1a sd1b sd1s1e etc fail with > the message: > > /dev/sd1s1a on /mnt: Operation not permitted. Is the filesystem clean ? Try checking, then mount. > I'm using this as root, /mnt exists and had nothing in it. I have never > had much luck with mount on FreeBSD. Some of the disks (other than sd0) > were bootable disks with / /var swap and /usr on them. Some where > just /new/spool disks. The disks should be good. Why is the operation > not permitted? > > Bob Robert -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de