Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Oscar Chavarria
I lost environmental power temporarily a few days ago, and when it was back (almost immediately), the machine restarted without any input from me. I had mounted to /home a 30 GB usb 2.0 hdd. I tried mounting again since I did not find it in df. The prompt is always WARNING: /home was not

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:12:00AM -0600, Oscar Chavarria wrote: I lost environmental power temporarily a few days ago, and when it was back (almost immediately), the machine restarted without any input from me. I had mounted to /home a 30 GB usb 2.0 hdd. I tried mounting again since I

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Oscar Chavarria wrote: I lost environmental power temporarily a few days ago, and when it was back (almost immediately), the machine restarted without any input from me. I had mounted to /home a 30 GB usb 2.0 hdd. I tried mounting again since I did not find it in df. The prompt is

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Oscar Chavarria wrote: fsck /dev/da0s1 /home fsck: could not determine filesystem type. Go figure. Might the hdd be damaged? I guess not since boot recognized it, right? Please don't top-post and keep the conversation on the list. It seems like you've tried to fsck only the slice

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Oscar Chavarria
ls /dev/da0s1 /dev/da0s1 On 5/14/07, Mikhail Goriachev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oscar Chavarria wrote: fsck /dev/da0s1 /home fsck: could not determine filesystem type. Go figure. Might the hdd be damaged? I guess not since boot recognized it, right? Please don't top-post and keep the

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:58:54AM -0600, Oscar Chavarria wrote: ls /dev/da0s1 /dev/da0s1 Again, please do not top post. It makes it very hard to have any idea what you are referring to. The entire context of the conversation gets lost. In this case, what do you mean? You just did an

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Oscar Chavarria wrote: ls /dev/da0s1 /dev/da0s1 Oscar, once again, don't top-post[1] please and show us the output of: # ls /dev/da0* Regards, Mikhail. [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-post -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, May 14, 2007 12:05:47 -0400 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:58:54AM -0600, Oscar Chavarria wrote: ls /dev/da0s1 /dev/da0s1 Again, please do not top post. It makes it very hard to have any idea what you are referring to. The entire

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Oscar Chavarria
If you will excuse me for now. I'm trying to solve the top-post problem. I lost environmental power temporarily a few days ago, and when it was back (almost immediately), the machine restarted without any input from me. I had mounted to /home a 30 GB usb 2.0 hdd. I tried mounting again since I

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Oscar Chavarria wrote: If you will excuse me for now. I'm trying to solve the top-post problem. I lost environmental power temporarily a few days ago, and when it was back (almost immediately), the machine restarted without any input from me. I had mounted to /home a 30 GB usb 2.0 hdd.

Re: Unable to mount HDD - Newbie question

2007-05-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:33:16AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Monday, May 14, 2007 12:05:47 -0400 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:58:54AM -0600, Oscar Chavarria wrote: ls /dev/da0s1 /dev/da0s1 Again, please do not top post. It makes it very