[Courses] [FS] Lesson 5

[Francis Rossi]

>> I have joined this course although I'm male,
>Well, you're in questionable company - so am I ;^)
>

Nice! ;-)

>
>root at yourbox:~# mount -t sunfs /dev/hdb4 /mnt/freebsd

I certainly did try this as well.

>* Does this mount point exist?
>	Basic, but oh so easily forgotten (also very easy to do if you 
>accidentally mounted another volume over it - which is why you 
>shouldn't play with /mnt if you mount your CDs at /mnt/cdrom).

Yes, it did exist.
As for the rest of your observations I think they give me some good ideas.
Thanks!

Andrei

http://icefoto.narod.ru

>* Is the block device valid?
>	Usual symptoms of this one are I/O errors. Check the partition exists 
>with the fdisk command.
>
>* Does your kernel support this filesystem implementation?
>	Look in /proc/filesystems - is sunfs listed there? If not, is it a 
>module? Try "modprobe sunfs".
>
>* Is this volume formatted with this filesystem implementation?
>	This one shows up as "bad superblock" errors - are you sure that sunfs 
>is the one you want? Try rebooting into FreeBSD and checking the mount 
>table there.
>
>I hope this rough-and-ready guide helps...
>
>Meredydd