Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 18:30:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need help repairing this system... mount issues Message-ID: <20030519013058.99111.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200305190117.aa67893@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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--- Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: > Try the following MFS trick: > > mount_mfs -T fd1440 none /mnt > cd /mnt > sh /dev/MAKEDEV ad4s1a was able to do these 3 w/o any issues. > mount -u /mnt/ad4s1a / however, it fell appart here. this is the error message i received: WARNING: R/W mount of / denied. Filesystem is not clean - run fsck mount: /mnt/ad4s1a: Operation not permitted > cd /dev > sh MAKEDEV ad4s1a the same error appears as before: mknod: ad4s1a: Read-only file system /sbin/mknod ad4s1 > > The usual way of getting out of this situation is to use a fixit > CD/floppy to create the device nodes, but the above should work > without the need for that. i have to say this was extremely helpful. i was able to mount /dev/ad4s1e under /usr. however, i'm still stuck. i was hoping i'd be able to create the device nodes and then change the values under /etc/fstab so that things would work without any issues. but i'm still having a problem with sorting out the device nodes. any other advice on this one? thanks again for this pretty sweet trick. :) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
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