From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 13 23:19:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (pop3.islandtransit.org [208.240.196.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB3437B6D0 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 23:19:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.00) id A966D7940724; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 23:23:34 -0700 From: chip To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Running FSCK - Was: I'm at a loss for a way to mount this second harddrive Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 23:15:38 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <20000413082842.U4381@fw.wintelcom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00041323212501.15325@chip.wiegand.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Here's a trick that can help out, if you're running commands, > especially as root and things aren't working out, try running > 'dmesg' after the command to see if the kernel complained about > anything. > I'm 99% sure that you'd see: > WARNING: R/W mount of /dev/wd3s1e denied. Filesystem is not clean - run fsck > Near the end of the kernel log, you'll find a lot of other situations > where this can really help. > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] > "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." I checked dmesg and you're right. In fact, the warning message was pointing to all my partitions including /cdrom. So I ran fsck and it reported back that the filesystem was still dirty and to re-run fsck, so I did, and kept getting the same results. I read the man pages for fsck and ran fsck -p and fsck -f, not sure which one was most appropriate, but the file system is still 'dirty'. What should I try next to 'clean' the 'dirty' filesystem? -- Chip www.wiegand.org ***** Visit my web site - Alternative Operating Systems - MS Windows isn't the only OS in town. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message