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Date:      Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:19:49 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Brann <jbrann@panix.com>
To:        jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org (freeq)
Subject:   Re: Need serious help with filesystem
Message-ID:  <199603312319.SAA00760@jbrann.dialup.access.net>
In-Reply-To: <9603312208.AA09616@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> from "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" at "Mar 31, 96 05:08:10 pm"

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Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote...
> 
> Hello,
> 
[... sad story elided... ]

If the root filesystem is dirty, it'll probably mount read only.  Try again,
but this time do 

'mount -fv /' 

which will force read/write and give you more diagnostics.

This will let you do the MAKEDEV and, hopefully, recover.

Good Luck!

John

-- 
Beavis and Butt-Head;  Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s.

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