Re: / was not properly dismounted

From: Pewter (pewterpez_at_comcast.net)
Date: 09/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 03:50:50 GMT

"FredBear" <Fredbear2412(via)yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:3f78fa24@duster.adelaide.on.net...
> I thought I'd shutdown the new 5.1 FBSD server , but obviously not.
>
> Now I can't get it to boot.....just sits there with above err msg.
> Last 2 lines on screen are
>
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
>
> It's been an hour or more now.
> On the old server (v4.5) this msg would come up, for a while while a
> "scandisk" was done.
> Then the boot would continue.
>
> Whats with 5.1?
> How do I get out of this? (Simple step by step would be great. Still new
at
> this unix stuff)
>
> Many TIA
>

Exactly how BIG is your / mount?

if it's extremely large (oh say, your entire disk) then it's just taking a
LONG time to fsck the disk...whenever a drive is improperly unmounted, it
has to fsck it on reboot. All mounts (save for /) can be fsck'ed in the
background. / however, cannot.

So just check the hdd light, make sure it's chuggin' away :P

Robert