From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 14 17:14:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F30116A402 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 17:14:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 468A413C457 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 17:14:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l4EHAnqC036772; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:10:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l4EHAn9p036771; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:10:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 13:10:49 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister To: Paul Schmehl Message-ID: <20070514171049.GA36743@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <716841580705140812l40094c33h74033921cc0a37bd@mail.gmail.com> <46488100.3040502@webanoide.org> <716841580705140838v54fa3ef8k282332100cfad562@mail.gmail.com> <464884B1.8050304@webanoide.org> <716841580705140858w4084f36o87cb2ab96649857@mail.gmail.com> <20070514160547.GA36516@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <0E29F8CF45F72559F50BB1F5@utd59514.utdallas.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0E29F8CF45F72559F50BB1F5@utd59514.utdallas.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: Jerry McAllister , Mikhail Goriachev , FreeBSD Questions Mailing List , Oscar Chavarria Subject: Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 17:14:19 -0000 On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:33:16AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Monday, May 14, 2007 12:05:47 -0400 Jerry McAllister > wrote: > > >On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:58:54AM -0600, Oscar Chavarria wrote: > > > >>ls /dev/da0s1 > >>/dev/da0s1 > > > >Again, please do not top post. It makes it very hard to have any > >idea what you are referring to. The entire context of the > >conversation gets lost. > > > >In this case, what do you mean? > >You just did an ls of a file name and found that it responsed > >with the file name. That is normal. So, what? > > > >Try doing ls /dev/da0s* and see what you get. > > > >Secondly, nowdays, the devfs system only makes devices that are > >in use and makes them on the fly. I haven't dug around in that > >since the change since it was changed from the old MAKEDEV system > >so I may be wrong, but I would not be surprised if /dev/da0s1d was > >not there until after things were fixed up. > > > >So, try the fsck as Mikhail suggested -- with the partition name. > > > > I'm wondering if he shouldn't try umount /home first. If there is something mounted there, yes. Does df show anything mounted at /home? If so, then the umount will be helpful. But, I think the correct fsck may be the needed thing to try. ////jerry > > ---- > Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) > Senior Information Security Analyst > The University of Texas at Dallas > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/