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Date:      Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:48:21 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@lemis.com, phk@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/6794
Message-ID:  <199806030348.NAA23512@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>> The WARNING line is printed by the kernel.  A normal mount(8) would try
>>> 31 slices here and the kernel would print 31 identical WARNING lines.
>>
>>Why that?  It knows the slice it's trying to mount: it's /dev/sd0s1e,
>>which fsck has just cleaned.  Under what circumstances would mount(8)
>>try to mount every possible slice on the disk?
>
>Whenever the mount point is "/", mount(8) is an unhacked -current or
>-stable mount(8), and there are no mountable slices (with the given unit
>and partition) on the disk.

Oops.  It only tries multiple slices if the device name is for a
partition on the compatibility slice.

This means that the problem is probably entirely in fsck.

Bruce

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