Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 16:14:27 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: PETERS@staidan.qld.edu.au (Peter Stubbs) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting a cd Message-ID: <199510260644.QAA10345@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <49735D2CB5@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au> from "Peter Stubbs" at Oct 26, 95 01:38:26 pm
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Peter Stubbs stands accused of saying: > I posted this about a week ago with no reply. I can't see how to > solve my problem, so here goes again. I saw your last post, but figured that you would have worked it out, or perhaps posted some more details. 8( > When it boots and mounts the cd at /cdrom it seems to create a file in > the root directory called /cdrom with the following stats > > -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 May 1 20:00 cdrom Most bizarre. What happens if you boot single-user (-s at the Boot: prompt) and create /cdrom? You'll have to remount / before you can write to it : # mount / # mkdir /cdrom # reboot > The same things happens if I create a new directory & try again, even > if that new directory is on another file system. ie /usr/cdrom Does this include editing /etc/fstab to point to the new mountpoint? > Everything was fine until I was copying a large archive to a floppy > mounted at /mnt and (foolishly) typed 'ls /mnt' from another xterm. I just tried this a few times with no trouble; I don't think it qualifies as 'foolish' 8) > This seemed to create a deadlock on the floppy. The drive light went > out, and neither the ls nor the cp would stop or go into the > background. I quit from X & tried kill -9 to no avail. Device wait; nothing ever returns 8) > What can I do to get my cd back? I would, uncharitably, say "reinstall" 8) To be honest, I can't imagine what, short of kernel corruption, would cause this. You haven't (IIRC) mentioned which version of FreeBSD you're running. > Peter -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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