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From: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de (Michael Giegerich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: probs with mount'ing "lost partition"
Date: 18 Sep 1996 22:48:10 +0200
Organization: BaWue-Net Ludwigsburg
Lines: 35
Message-ID: <51pn6a$383@luva.lb.bawue.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: luva.lb.bawue.de
2nd time I make a very stupid thing :-(
I did umount -f my news partition (after carefully shutting
down innd) and with it 2 other partitions mounted afterwards...
unmounted there w/o unmounting
other partitions before
I
v
Something like /---+---+---
I
+---
When I did remount the news partition and wanted to restart
rc.news I didn't found it as it resides on one of the 2 a.m.
partitions.
Nothing works: umount -f /dev/sd or /dev/rsd or
/var/news/lost_partition, fsck, mount -u ...
The system allways complains "device busy" or
"/var/news/lost_partition not found" or wrong
parameter (or something like that). Fsck doesn't
work as it starts in read only mode using /dev/sd.
After reading tons of man pages and books I did reboot and
all is going well now (as last time where I did promise
to never ever do this again (fsck'ing /var/news in multi-
user mode - even with innd not working)).
But one curiousity remains: is it possible to correct the
fs w/o rebooting?
--
Michael Giegerich, E-Mail: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de, Voice: +49 7144 39337