From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 16 11:30:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-2.enteract.com (smtp-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D45037B418 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:30:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from jamestown.21stcentury.net (24-148-18-116.na.21stcentury.net [24.148.18.116]) by smtp-2.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA0677AE1; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:30:21 -0600 (CST) Received: (from jtm@localhost) by jamestown.21stcentury.net (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAGJUWH03403; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:30:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jtm) To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Don Sutter , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: fsck problem - in plain text References: <001001c169a5$2ccae7e0$13fea8c0@drs> <20011110004558.E51003@blossom.cjclark.org> From: James McNaughton Date: 16 Nov 2001 13:30:31 -0600 In-Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark"'s message of "Sat, 10 Nov 2001 00:45:58 -0800" Message-ID: <864rnuv7hk.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net> Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Crist J. Clark" writes: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 10:04:28PM -0700, Don Sutter wrote: > > Sorry! I just turned off html... > > > > fsck is refusing to run telling me that it doesn't have > > write access. I'm logged in to FreeBSD 4.3 as root and my > > system is installed on ad1 (root-ad1s1a, swap-ad1s1b, > > usr-ad1s1e) > > > > This is as far as I get... > > > > sparky# fsck -f -p > > /dev/ad1s1a: NO WRITE ACCESS > > /dev/ad1s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCE; RUN fsck MANUALLY. > > > > > > Hummm. I thought I was running fsck manually... > > Manually implies without the '-p' option. Maybe you've been asked this before, but are you in single user mode and are the file systems unmounted? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message