On Saturday 10 September 2005 09:13 am, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Leonard Zettel wrote: > >On Saturday 10 September 2005 12:44 am, Mike Hernandez wrote: > >>Have you tried explicitly telling fsck what file system it's going to > >>be checking? > > > >Duhhhh.... What is the syntax for doing that? > > Assuming that's a serious question, a serious example > would be: > > $ fsck /var > A bit difficult to see how to apply that in the present context. If I understand things correctly, /var designates a "mount point". I have my hardware set up to use swappable hard drives, with the idea of using one drive for backups, mounting it on /mnt for that purpose. But when I try to do that, mount won't mount (without -f). fsck won't fsck either, or at least gives me a message I don't understand.
My (somewhat shallow) perusal of what documentation I can find suggests that fsck should be used on an unmounted file system (to guarantee its "quiescence"). So what, other than the device designation, do I hand off to fsck? Or should I force the mount and then use fsck? -LenZ- > HTH, > > Kevin Kinsey > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
