Subject: fsck'ing
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: benjamin p. myers <s1dative@exnet.iastate.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/03/1999 08:20:15
Hey netbsd folk. All kinds of trouble here. Perhaps some of you that are
more experienced with netbsd can help me.
Am trying to fsck my root partition. Here's what i get:
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# mount -a
/dev/rz0a: file system not clean; please
fsck(8) (to show that it sucks)
# mount
/dev/rz0a on / type ffs (local)
/dev/rz0d on /usr type ffs (local)
#
# umount -a (suggesting that everything
unmounted alright)
#
mount
/dev/rz0a on / type ffs (local) (except of course the root
partition)
#
# umount
/
umount: /: Invalid argument (okay, guess
not)
#
# umount -t ffs /dev/rz0a
/
umount: /: Invalid argument (try
again)
umount: /: Invalid
argument
#
# mount -t ffs -o rdonly /dev/rz0a / (decide to go the other
route)
#
mount
/dev/rz0a on / type ffs (local, read-only) (you'd think it'd be ok to
fsck now)
#
# fsck
/
/dev/rrz0a (No such file or directory)Can't stat
/dev/rrz0a
/dev/rrz0a (No such file or directory)Can't stat
/dev/rrz0a
/dev/rz0a is not a character
device
CONTINUE? [yn]
y
an't open /dev/rz0a: Device busy (guess not)
#
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I've tried a few other permutations all with the same result. so, eh,
what? do you all have to fsck your root partitions from another one? or,
much more likely, am i just stupid?
thanks,
ben (newbie)