Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

[Oscar Chavarria]

If you will excuse me for now. I'm trying to solve the top-post problem.

I lost environmental power temporarily a few days ago, and when it was back
(almost immediately), the machine restarted without any input from me.

I had mounted to /home a 30 GB usb 2.0 hdd.

I tried mounting again since I did not find it in df.

The prompt is always "WARNING: /home was not properly dismounted.

The output from dmesg is:
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <HITACHI- DK23....> etc....
WARNING: /home was not properly dismounted.

Thank you Paul, tried umount but the result was the same.

Tried this:
ls /dev/da0*
/dev/da0s                  dev/da0s1
dev/da0s1c                           dev/da0s1d

Thanks in advance for any help to mount the disk again.

On 5/14/07, Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu> wrote:
>
> --On Monday, May 14, 2007 12:05:47 -0400 Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu
> >
> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:58:54AM -0600, Oscar Chavarria wrote:
> >
> >> ls /dev/da0s1
> >> /dev/da0s1
> >
> > Again, please do not top post.   It makes it very hard to have any
> > idea what you are referring to.     The entire context of the
> > conversation gets lost.
> >
> > In this case, what do you mean?
> > You just did an ls of a file name and found that it responsed
> > with the file name.   That is normal.   So, what?
> >
> > Try doing ls /dev/da0s*  and see what you get.
> >
> > Secondly, nowdays, the devfs system only makes devices that are
> > in use and makes them on the fly.   I haven't dug around in that
> > since the change since it was changed from the old MAKEDEV system
> > so I may be wrong, but I would not be surprised if /dev/da0s1d was
> > not there until after things were fixed up.
> >
> > So, try the fsck as Mikhail suggested  -- with the partition name.
> >
>
> I'm wondering if he shouldn't try umount /home first.
>
> ----
> Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
> Senior Information Security Analyst
> The University of Texas at Dallas
> http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
>
>


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Oscar Chavarria
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