[KLUG Members] Uh oh. OpenBSD dead disk..

Peter Buxton members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:23:08 -0400


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On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:08:55AM -0400, Adam Bultman wrote:

> It is most non-essential (boot is /dev/wd0a, this is /dev/wd1a) but
> since it either 1. finds a problem, or 2. Doesn't find it at all (i.e.
> I remove it), it pukes, and I sit at the console with a read-only
> filesystem.

That doesn't sound very robust unless you can remount it. The OpenBSD
man page doesn't seem to rule out remounting a drive read-write.

> 1. Can I somehow edit my /etc/fstab so it doesn't look for the drive
> anymore?

/dev/hdc1   /mnt/sec   reiserfs defaults,notail,noauto    0 2

You may wish to readup on the mount(8) man page at:=20

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=3Dmount&sektion=3D8&arch=3Di38=
6&apropos=3D0&manpath=3DOpenBSD+Current

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