From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 31 15:20:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA07282 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 15:20:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA07277 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 15:20:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA00760; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:19:49 -0500 Message-Id: <199603312319.SAA00760@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: Re: Need serious help with filesystem To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:19:49 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) In-Reply-To: <9603312208.AA09616@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> from "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" at "Mar 31, 96 05:08:10 pm" From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key