From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 10 10:54:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA04716A41F for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:54:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zettel@acm.org) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [216.148.227.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78F6443D48 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:54:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zettel@acm.org) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (pcp0011427575pcs.sothfd01.mi.comcast.net[69.246.103.241]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2005091010545401500is9gge>; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:54:54 +0000 From: Leonard Zettel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 22:55:17 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200509091210.09717.zettel@acm.org> <200509091445.29301.zettel@acm.org> <4322A39C.1090001@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <4322A39C.1090001@daleco.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509092255.17717.zettel@acm.org> Cc: sequethin@gmail.com Subject: Re: What is fsck trying to tell me? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: zettel@acm.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:54:55 -0000 On Saturday 10 September 2005 09:13 am, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Leonard Zettel wrote: > >On Saturday 10 September 2005 12:44 am, Mike Hernandez wrote: > >>Have you tried explicitly telling fsck what file system it's going to > >>be checking? > > > >Duhhhh.... What is the syntax for doing that? > > Assuming that's a serious question, a serious example > would be: > > $ fsck /var > A bit difficult to see how to apply that in the present context. If I understand things correctly, /var designates a "mount point". I have my hardware set up to use swappable hard drives, with the idea of using one drive for backups, mounting it on /mnt for that purpose. But when I try to do that, mount won't mount (without -f). fsck won't fsck either, or at least gives me a message I don't understand. My (somewhat shallow) perusal of what documentation I can find suggests that fsck should be used on an unmounted file system (to guarantee its "quiescence"). So what, other than the device designation, do I hand off to fsck? Or should I force the mount and then use fsck? -LenZ- > HTH, > > Kevin Kinsey > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"