need help repairing this system... mount issues
Joshua Oreman
oremanj at webserver.get-linux.org
Sun May 18 18:40:31 PDT 2003
On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 06:30:58PM -0700 or thereabouts, Bsd Neophyte seemed to write:
>
> --- Ian Dowse <iedowse at 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. :)
>
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