From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 28 8:13:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-35.max4-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.9.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9923D14D4C for ; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 08:13:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA02485; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 16:13:20 GMT (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00986; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 16:13:37 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199911281613.QAA00986@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Brian Somers , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP - don't forget to MAKEDEV In-Reply-To: Message from Poul-Henning Kamp of "Sun, 28 Nov 1999 16:55:27 +0100." <16442.943804527@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 16:13:37 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <199911281541.PAA00555@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>, Brian Somers writes: > >Hi, > > > >Just a quick HEADS UP.... since the final bits of the block device > >removal have gone in, it's now possible to dig yourself a hole if you > >forget to MAKEDEV your disk devices (with the latest version of > >MAKEDEV) and end up with a corrupt disk at boot.... fsck will fail > >to set the device clean. You've then got to mount -f /, MAKEDEV your > >disk devices, fsck them and then reboot. > > I hope this is not true. I think fsck sets the device clean, but > the "reload" of the root filesystem seems to fail still. If you > get in this situation try this: > > fsck -p > reboot > you should now come up with no problem, if not send me email! Well, before doing the MAKEDEV, it didn't *say* it was setting the device clean :-( After the mount -f/MAKEDEV, it did say it was setting it clean, but still wouldn't mount without -f or a reboot. > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message