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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 09:09:35 -0500
- Reply-To: Steve Howie <scotty@PIRANHA.CS.UOGUELPH.CA>
- Sender: NeXT Computer List <NEXT-L@BROWNVM.BITNET>
- From: Steve Howie <scotty@PIRANHA.CS.UOGUELPH.CA>
- Subject: R/O root file system
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- Help!
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- One of our NeXTs refuses to boot properly. On the way up it complains about
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- mach_swapon failed: read-only file system
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- I tried coming up single user, and sure enuff .. I can't write to anything, it
- complains about a read-only file system.
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- The machine is a 68040 cube running NextStep 3.0
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- I had a look at /etc/fstab and everything seems hunky-dory. 640 Mb. Maxtor drive
- with
- just one partition '/'
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- Any ideas about where to start looking? The user went on holiday on Dec 20th.
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- isn't back yet to tell me what 'little thing he changed' :)
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- Thanx muchly in advance,
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- Scotty
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