Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question
Jerry McAllister
jerrymc at msu.edu
Mon May 14 15:29:00 UTC 2007
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:12:00AM -0600, Oscar Chavarria wrote:
> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help to mount the disk again.
Try running fsck on it.
fsck /dev/device_name
The device name would be whatever the partition name should be.
That should either fix it or give you some ideas of where
to go next.
////jerry
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