On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]> wrote: >> df /altroot shows: "Mounted on /" >> (df -h doesn't show /altroot.) > > Thus, /altroot is currently not mounted.
As you said before, it shouldn't be usually mounted as it is used by dd(1). daily.out's output on the first email shows that this partition stores a backup of /dev/wd0a right now. To look into it mount this partition on any mount point. For example: # mount /dev/wd0d /mnt # ls -al /mnt It should have a copy of your root partition, and you should be able to see it after mounting /dev/wd0d. Do not miss umount(8)ing it after looking into its contents (i.e., umount /mnt). >> So i cannot browse the content of /altroot, even though the backup >> files are there? > > We are slowly drifting off-topic, this is no more OpenBSD-specific, > instead this is basic knowledge of basic Unix features. > > No, you cannot access a file system that is not mounted. > You need to mount it first, see mount(8) for details. > > In case you just want to have a look, consider mounting it read-only. > And don't forget to umount(8) it afterwards, or the next nightly dd(1) > won't do what you expect. Agreed.
