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Article #250Re: Can't mount external disk.
From: Michael Schulman
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:00
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I have seen this before. Try to fsck the disk. In article <3150AE77.61D8@ix.netcom.com>, Joseph An <visualmg@ix.netcom.com> writes: |> From: Joseph An <visualmg@ix.netcom.com> |> Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,fj.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.questions |> Subject: Can't mount external disk. |> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:18:47 -0800 |> Organization: VMI |> Lines: 25 |> NNTP-Posting-Host: lax-ca11-29.ix.netcom.com |> Mime-Version: 1.0 |> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii |> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit |> X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Mar 20 5:24:08 PM PST 1996 |> X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) |> |> Hi, |> |> My external disk will not mount now. I tried to mount with toolchest |> but when I hit mount button, the following message appears: |> |> "You can't perform this action. |> There are applications or users accessing this file system |> and or directory, or the object system is down." |> |> I have tried the following: |> |> /etc/init.d/cadmin stop |> clean |> start |> |> mediad -k |> mediad -a |> reboot |> |> It didn't help. I have very important files on external disks which is |> not backed up yet. Do I need to setup /etc/fstab for the system to |> mount my external disk? My external disk is named /disk4 it is on SCSI |> controller 0 and SCSI address 4. Thank you for your help. |> |> Joseph An -- Michael Schulman Manager, Technical Marketing Engineering Applications Silicon Graphics Computer Systems 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94039 415-390-3308 mas@sgi.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fa751,ffe9be262a4f86b,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfa751,public X-Google-Thread: 100159,ffe9be262a4f86b,start X-Google-Attributes: gid100159,public X-Google-Thread: f48e5,ffe9be262a4f86b,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf48e5,public X-Google-Thread: f72b0,ffe9be262a4f86b,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf72b0,public X-Google-Thread: 1020c6,ffe9be262a4f86b,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1020c6,public X-Google-Thread: 10872d,ffe9be262a4f86b,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10872d,public X-Google-Thread: fc443,ffe9be262a4f86b,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfc443,public X-Google-Thread: 10268b,ffe9be262a4f86b,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10268b,public From: mas@everest.engr.sgi.com (Michael Schulman) Subject: Re: Can't mount external disk. Date: 1996/03/21 Message-ID: <4iqcks$i7p@gazette.engr.sgi.com> X-Deja-AN: 143232244 references: <3150AE77.61D8@ix.netcom.com> organization: Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA reply-to: mas@sgi.com newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,fj.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.questions