[nylug-talk] Is it mounted or not ??

[matt black]

Thanks Peter for the response,  indeed I may have to fire up debug2fs, 
although that seems like it will take more time than we thought we were in 
for here. Plus we would like to be able to use the machine and not just pull 
the data down.

As it turns out, the problem is the file system, which seems to be some sort 
of ufs. I say seems, because all

file - < /dev/wd0s4

is "x86 boot sector, BSD disklabel"

We were able to sort-of mount it using ufs but we need to know which ufs to 
mount without errors? Not taking any chances here on accidentally destroying 
the fs until we can determine exactly which one it is.

We're still intent on mounting this thing -w however, so if anyone can tell 
us how to determine the exact file system, that might put us closer.  
Thoughts?


much thanks,

matty






>From: "Peter C. Norton" <spacey-nylug at lenin.net>
>Reply-To: NYLUG Technical Discussion <nylug-talk at nylug.org>
>To: NYLUG Technical Discussion <nylug-talk at nylug.org>
>Subject: Re: [nylug-talk] Is it mounted or not ??
>Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:07:01 -0700
>
>Matt,
>
>If your goal is retrieving the data, you could try to attach to the
>device with debug2fs and poke around. It's possible that it's not
>(just) the mount point but something borderline about the metadata
>that you could find out about.
>
>Though, I can't think of any flags that could/should interfere with
>the kernels or mounts opinion of the state of a filesystem, I do want
>to make sure that the tool was mentioned.
>
>-Peter
>
>On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 06:03:36PM +0000, matt black wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestion Paul,
> >
> >   What I meant to imply by "can see no obvious reason it would be busy" 
>is
> > that no, no one else is on any tty and aside from normal system 
>processes,
> > this is the only command being issued on the only tty being used.
> >
> >    So we still can't unmount it bc its not mounted, and can't mount it 
>bc
> > its already mounted or mount point busy. Gazooks.
> >
> > matt
> >
> > >>>we're
> > >>> > getting this odd result:
> > >>> >
> > >>> > mb at akron: sudo bash
> > >>> > root at akron:# mount -v -t ext2 /dev/hdd /mnt/fam
> > >>> > mount: /dev/hdd already mounted or /mnt/fam busy
> > >>> > root at akron:# umount /dev/hdd
> > >>> > umount: /dev/hdd not mounted
> > >>> > root at akron:# umount /mnt/fam
> > >>> > umount: /mnt/fam not mounted
> > >>> > root at akron: mount -v -t ext2 /dev/hdd /mnt/fam
> > >>> > mount: /dev/hdd already mounted or /mnt/fam busy
> > >>> >
> > >>> > So is it mounted or not ?!
> > >>> >
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