On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:33:16AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Monday, May 14, 2007 12:05:47 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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.
If there is something mounted there, yes. Does df show anything mounted at /home? If so, then the umount will be helpful. But, I think the correct fsck may be the needed thing to try. ////jerry > > ---- > Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Senior Information Security Analyst > The University of Texas at Dallas > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"