Re: virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [solved]
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 10:20 AM Ross Boylan
<rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
>
> Noticing the "write on read-only" error, and remembering it should be
> read-only, I added that to the mount options. Which still failed, but
> differently:
Well, it failed differently in the sense that it succeeded :) Yay!
I was fooled by the errors in dmsg, which referred to previous
attempts. As you predicted and I hoped, mounting with the read-only
option succeeded.
Reco, thanks so much for your help.
On to the next problem....
Ross
P.S. One reason I'm trying for read-only is that sdf2 is already the
backup from the failing drive.
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