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

Adam Bultman members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:28:58 -0400 (EDT)


I've tried re-mounting the root filesystem, but it just says, "Device
Busy".

So, I can't change my fstab to make it not mount my second drive, so I'm
pretty much screwed.

-- 
Adam Bultman
adam@glaven.org
[ http://www.glaven.org ]


On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Peter Buxton wrote:

> 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:
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mount&sektion=8&arch=i386&apropos=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current
>
>