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root@SRXbuffalo> request system software add /var/tmp/junos-srxsme-18.3R1.9.tgz
NOTICE: Validating configuration against junos-srxsme-18.3R1.9.tgz.
NOTICE: Use the 'no-validate' option to skip this if desired.
Formatting alternate root (/dev/da0s2a)...
newfs: /dev/da0s2a: failed to open disk for writing
ERROR: Could not format alternate root


root@SRXbuffalo> show system snapshot media internal
Information for snapshot on internal (/dev/da0s1a) (primary)
Creation date: Aug 21 15:05:08 2018
JUNOS version on snapshot:
junos : 18.2R1.9
error: cannot mount /dev/da0s2a


root@SRXbuffalo% df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a 2.4G 318M 1.9G 14% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/md0 20M 11M 6.7M 63% /junos
/cf/packages 2.4G 318M 1.9G 14% /junos/cf/packages
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /junos/cf/dev
/dev/md1 1.1G 1.1G 0B 100% /junos
/cf 20M 11M 6.7M 63% /junos/cf
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /junos/dev/
/cf/packages 2.4G 318M 1.9G 14% /junos/cf/packages1
procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc
/dev/bo0s3e 185M 64K 170M 0% /config
/dev/bo0s3f 2.1G 1.0G 992M 50% /cf/var
/dev/md2 1.0G 83M 866M 9% /mfs
/cf/var/jail 2.1G 1.0G 992M 50% /jail/var
/cf/var/log 2.1G 1.0G 992M 50% /jail/var/log
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /jail/dev
/dev/md3 1.8M 340K 1.4M 20% /jail/mfs
/dev/da0s2a 2.4G 304M 1.9G 13% /mfs/tmp/snap-tmp.86444/mnt.86444


Solution: umount the partition:

root@SRXbuffalo% umount /mfs/tmp/snap-tmp.86444/mnt.86444


Now we can see the second partition

root@SRXbuffalo> show system snapshot media internal
Information for snapshot on internal (/dev/da0s1a) (primary)
Creation date: Aug 21 15:05:08 2018
JUNOS version on snapshot:
junos : 18.2R1.9
Information for snapshot on internal (/dev/da0s2a) (backup)
Creation date: Jan 3 12:49:35 2018
JUNOS version on snapshot:
junos : 17.4R1.16



root@SRXbuffalo> request system software add /var/tmp/junos-srxsme-18.3R1.9.tgz
NOTICE: Validating configuration against junos-srxsme-18.3R1.9.tgz.
NOTICE: Use the 'no-validate' option to skip this if desired.
Formatting alternate root (/dev/da0s2a)...
/dev/da0s2a: 2518.0MB (5156848 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
using 14 cylinder groups of 183.62MB, 11752 blks, 23552 inodes.
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:



root@SRXbuffalo> show system snapshot media internal
Information for snapshot on internal (/dev/da0s1a) (backup)
Creation date: Aug 21 15:05:08 2018
JUNOS version on snapshot:
junos : 18.2R1.9
Information for snapshot on internal (/dev/da0s2a) (primary)
Creation date: Sep 28 12:40:01 2018
JUNOS version on snapshot:
junos : 18.3R1.9



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