Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 18:41:32 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need help repairing this system... mount issues Message-ID: <20030519014132.GB19365@webserver.get-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20030519013058.99111.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> References: <200305190117.aa67893@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20030519013058.99111.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 06:30:58PM -0700 or thereabouts, Bsd Neophyte seemed to write: > > --- Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: > > > Try the following MFS trick: > > > > mount_mfs -T fd1440 none /mnt > > cd /mnt > > sh /dev/MAKEDEV ad4s1a > > was able to do these 3 w/o any issues. > > > mount -u /mnt/ad4s1a / > > however, it fell appart here. this is the error message i received: > > WARNING: R/W mount of / denied. Filesystem is not clean - run fsck > mount: /mnt/ad4s1a: Operation not permitted I guess you need to fsck the fs first. Do: fsck /mnt/ad4s1a before the mount command. > > > cd /dev > > sh MAKEDEV ad4s1a > > the same error appears as before: > > mknod: ad4s1a: Read-only file system > /sbin/mknod ad4s1 Direct consequence of the above. -- Josh > > > > > The usual way of getting out of this situation is to use a fixit > > CD/floppy to create the device nodes, but the above should work > > without the need for that. > > i have to say this was extremely helpful. i was able to mount /dev/ad4s1e > under /usr. > > however, i'm still stuck. i was hoping i'd be able to create the device > nodes and then change the values under /etc/fstab so that things would > work without any issues. but i'm still having a problem with sorting out > the device nodes. > > any other advice on this one? > > thanks again for this pretty sweet trick. :) > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > http://search.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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