From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 14 2:32: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F83A37B749 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 02:32:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.47.188.118] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ca884964 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 05:31:55 -0400 From: Walter Brameld To: chip , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running FSCK - Was: I'm at a loss for a way to mount this second harddrive Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 05:31:09 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <20000413082842.U4381@fw.wintelcom.net> <00041323212501.15325@chip.wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <00041323212501.15325@chip.wiegand.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00041405315600.02944@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, chip wrote: > > 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 I hope you're not trying to run fsck on mounted file systems. -- Walter Brameld Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? Walter: And what does THIS button do?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message