From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 17 03:34:05 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 F25A816A400 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:34:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82FD413C491 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:34:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so100946nfb for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:34:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EV/NjuEb3xusw6XceF6WUsF8EKt/60YJZboxY7IhJt8x3YT4Q2FdJMW44AHyOCLBpvvjvrJ4v2Ao4G60Go1QuhoY/0RceMXdRuWjFLcXkFhurr2y1PLUs+k8a1Yq6Z2RiSfvtlZtm9ZWCGb1+8VVPrM/kSzceHLmGddQMnkL5DM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Qku5qpY9nGk8EWKwZFr8j6X459E5/npnGKTUWz38ih0zDBqlPtbdZzZeuvrVpJzXryn08OGYd/4ChXs25OiM4FwgORwBv0QtCxULiqjPNkR7sLoY3ZkdfMCYq0kEJMdc3p8A9lLbjv3m5VQZFEOYuiR1O9bWEUSeYvidDlu2eEQ= Received: by 10.82.182.1 with SMTP id e1mr5227004buf.1184643244211; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.187.6 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:34:04 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Steve Franks" In-Reply-To: <539c60b90707162028o9024cd3s1920aed3d3a5530b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <539c60b90707162028o9024cd3s1920aed3d3a5530b@mail.gmail.com> Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: mount -awf, but fsck -y still says "no write" 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: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:34:06 -0000 On 16/07/07, Steve Franks wrote: > I really don't feel like reinstalling tonite. I had a bad powersupply > and crashed. Starts up in single user of course, because /var is > fubared. In the past a mount -awf then an fsck -y did the trick, but > now I get NO WRITE in big letters as the first output from fsck, and > it never fixes anything. I tried of course, and I very well can write > to /var, so fsck is confused. Other than wiping it, do I have any > options? fsck does not have a 'force write' option that I can see. > Did I forget some crucial step? It's just a plain old ufs2 drive on > the motherboard pata. Don't mount before fsck. -- --