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Date:      Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:18:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jason McNew <jase@clearsail.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mounts in limbo!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807311515580.14321-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35C1FCA3.416B46EA@clearsail.net>

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On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Jason McNew wrote:

> Hello, I'm running 2.2.6-release.
> My /var/mail and /var/log mounts appear to be in limbo.  df shows them
> mounted, but I don't see any files in the directory.  I'd like to check
> the logs, but I can't mount /var/log to look at them.  /var and
> /var/spool are different slices off of the same scsi drive, and they
> appear to be mounting fine.  Tried agin after rebooting with no luck.  I
> could be blind but I diden't find anything about this in the FAQ.  Any
> ideas how I can resolve this, or at least a pointer to the correct
> manual?
> 
> mail# umount /var/mail
> umount: /var/mail: Invalid argument
> mail# mount /var/mail
> /dev/sd0f on /var/mail: Device busy
> mail# df
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/wd0s1a     31775    17180    12053    59%    /
> /dev/sd1e     8626063   254762  7681216     3%    /home
> /dev/sd0e     2980238       22  2741797     0%    /var/spool
> /dev/sd0f     2980238   198257  2543562     7%    /var/mail
> /dev/sd0g     1986495    68062  1759514     4%    /var/log
> /dev/sd0h      678067     5709   618113     1%    /var
> /dev/wd0s1e     29727        2    27347     0%    /tmp
> /dev/wd0s1f   1674879   235672  1305217    15%    /usr
> procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc

> mail# fsck /dev/sd0f

Don't do this.  You risk serious filesystem damage by fsck'ing an active
mount.

> mail# cd /var/mail
> mail# ls -l

What does ``ls -l /var'' report?

> mail# cd /var/log
> mail# ls -l
> mail# fstat -f /var/mail
> USER     CMD          PID   FD MOUNT      INUM MODE         SZ|DV R/W
> root     fstat        351   wd /var      23040 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
> root     fstat        351    6 /var      92169 -rw-r--r--  339968  r
> jason    tcsh         286   wd /var       7680 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
> root     tcsh         203   wd /var      23040 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
> jase     tcsh         192   wd /var      76806 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
> root     sendmail     146   wd /var      69127 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
> root     cron         142   wd /var      76800 drwxr-x---     512  r
> root     cron         142    3 /var     115213 -rw-r--r--       4 rw
> root     rpc.statd    123    5 /var      92168 -rw-r--r--    4096 rw
> root     syslogd       90    8 /var      76801 -rw-------   68893  w
> 
> and here is my fstab if it helps:
> 
> # Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump
> Pass#
> /dev/sd1e               /home           ufs     rw              1
> /dev/sd0e               /var/spool      ufs     rw              0
> /dev/sd0f               /var/mail       ufs     rw              0
> /dev/sd0g               /var/log        ufs     rw              0
> /dev/sd0h               /var            ufs     rw              1
> /dev/wd0s1b             none            swap    sw              0
> /dev/wd0s1a             /               ufs     rw              1
> /dev/wd0s1e             /tmp            ufs     rw              2
> /dev/wd0s1f             /usr            ufs     rw              2
> proc                    /proc           procfs  rw              0
> /dev/wcd0c              /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0

What version of freebsd is this?  Is sd0 a `dangerously dedicated' disk?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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