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    Need help with unmountable filesystem (zfs)

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      fulvion75
      last edited by fulvion75

      Hello all,
      i have my pfSense box that is not booting anymore.
      I cut power by mistake and when i powered it up again it didn't boot stating:
      "impossible to mount filesystem, use intercative shell to attempt recovery".

      i rebooted in single user mode and used the commands:

      /sbin/mount -u /
      /sbin/zfs set readonly=off pfSense/ROOT/default
      /sbin/zfs mount -a
      /sbin/zfs mount pfSense/ROOT/default/cf
      /sbin/zfs mount pfSense/ROOT/default/var_db_pkg
      /sbin/nextboot -D
      

      all the commands seem to have succeeded, but if reboot the system in multi user mode it still hangs with that error.
      I tried the same commands again (i mean in multiuser mode) after the error appeared, and again no errors, then used "exit" to continue boot but it instead rebooted and hanged with the same error.
      i'm using current version of pfSense CE.

      Please help... i'm pretty new with pfSense and don't even have a recent configuration backup :(( shame on me

      thanks in advance

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        fulvion75 @fulvion75
        last edited by fulvion75

        sorry, my mistake. i had another drive (empty but normally mounted) that was the real problem, not zfs. i removed it from fstab and the system boot completed.

        again sorry for the false alarm...

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