Boot failure

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 11:25:48AM -0400, Identry wrote:
> >> So I guess the question now is, if I can mount it manually, why
> >> doesn't it mount during the boot process?
> >>
> > I'd give it an fsck or two (more than one has been needed once or
> > twice)
> 
> So I've been thinking about how to run fsck...
> 
> At the moment, I have to boot from an install cd, go into fixit mode,
> and mount filesystems by hand. I am mounting them to a mount point
> like /mnt/root and /mnt/home, etc.
> 
> Do I just do a command like:
> 
> fsck /mnt/root
> 
> Should I use any flags? Should I mount the filesystems read write or read only?

You should never fsck a filesystem when its mounted!

I think you should start by reading the manual pages for fsck and
fsck_ffs. I would start with 'fsck_ffs -fp /dev/yourdevicenode'.

If this command quits with errors, you might try fsck_ffs without flags,
or 'fsck_ffs -y' to have it try and repair all damage that it finds.

Roland
-- 
R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
[plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated]
pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914  B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 196 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20090807/454d036b/attachment.pgp