a 2nd usr drive seems to have bitten the dust as I moved to our new 
humble abode.  Now I get the dreaded error  below because I get 
"Can't open /dev/rsd1g: Device not configured"

Stuck!  FSCK shows my system is fine.. just need to kill /dev/rsdig

What should I do?

thanks for the help

On 2/13/01, Frederick Bruckman wanted to tell me:
>On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Mark R. Nathan wrote:
>
>>  /dev/rsd1g: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUNfsck_ffs MANUALLY.
>>  THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM HAD AN UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY:
>>               ffs: /dev/rsd1g (/usr2)
>>  automatic file system check failed; help!
>
>First, try to do what it says. "Run fsck manually" means:
>
>     fsck /dev/rsd1g
>
>or
>
>     fsck /usr2
>
>or "fsck" with no arguments.
>
>"fsck" will give you obtuse messages, and ask you cryptic questions.
>The default answer, "yes", is usually safe, unless there are DUPS due
>to bogus directory entries, in which case you'll probably have to
>reinstall or restore from back-up, anyway. If there are DUPS, and you
>want to try to save the file system, say "no" when it asks to delete a
>good file, and "yes" when it asks to delete the garbage file, which
>you can usually tell by the name.
>
>Repeat "fsck -f" until there are no more errors. If it's asking way
>too many questions, that's a sign that you're really hosed. If you
>know you're really hosed, and you've pretty much resigned yourself to
>rebuilding and restoring the file systems anyway, you can get to
>oblivion a little faster with "fsck -fy" (answer "yes" to everything).
>
>>  Something obviously happened in the 2 house move.. and not sure where
>>  to begin to correct this.
>>
>>  in single user I tried to edit some local files and was getting 
>>the same error:
>>
>>  ex/vi: Error: Unable to create temporray file: Read-only file system
>
>The file systems aren't mounted read/write until they pass the file
>system checks. If, by chance, you can get them all to fsck, you can
>mount everything with "mount -a; swapctl -A" in order to assess the
>collateral damage while you're still in single-user mode.
>
>
>Frederick

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