Quoth Marcel Moolenaar <xcl...@mac.com>: > > On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:27 AM, Marian Hettwer wrote: > >> > > gee, thanks! > > That worked. > > r...@talisker:/root# ls /dev/ad8* > > /dev/ad8 /dev/ad8s1 /dev/ad8s1a > > r...@talisker:/root# mount /dev/ad8s1a /BACKUP/ > > r...@talisker:/root# umount /BACKUP/ > > > > but, hm, whats that? > > r...@talisker:/root# fsck /dev/ad8s1a > > fsck: Could not determine filesystem type > > I minor inconvenience for the time being. fsck hasn't > been thought about getting partition types from gpart, > so that it can do a best-effort attempt at guessing > which variant to run. For now, you need to be explicit:
I for one would rather *not* see fsck extended in this way. The whole point of fsck is that you're running it on a potentially-broken disk; guessing is not helpful at that point :). Ben _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
