Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 16:28:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: Joachim Kuebart <joa@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de> To: Kevin Eliuk <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, abbott at MPCA <jabbott@wolf.co.net>, Kevin Eliuk <cagey@sunshine.net> Subject: Re: oops. Message-ID: <XFMail.970425165925.joa@delos.lf.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970422170714.295A-100000@kevin.sunshine.net>
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Hi To find out the mount point you should look at /etc/fstab. In single user mode you'll have to use ed, on the fixit floppy there's also vi.. c u JO On 23-Apr-97 Kevin Eliuk wrote: >On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, abbott at MPCA wrote: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >Quite a long loop :-] > >>Thank you to everyone who helped me with my copy and paste from xterm >>question. Unfortunatly shortly after I asked it became moot. > >>Last week I had something kind of bad happen. I ran out of space on my / >>(root partition) -- I did not make it big enough the first time I >>installed and I have not had time to shuffle things around and >>repartition >>it. So what I decided to do, unwisely I might add, :-( is move some of >>the >>stuff out of / and onto my other drive (mounted on /pca) and then >>symbolic >>link to it. I did not really think this through quite as well as I >>should >>have and I now understand the error of my ways. > >>This was not an issue until today when I rebooted. :-) >> My question is what now? >> >> When I try to reboot I get >> no init >> panic >> >> and then a reboot >> >> I was thinking of doing a system upgrade. I am running a gamma release >> right now. I have booted it from a floppy and I can see all the partitions >> in there. Nothing is mounted and I can not remember which partition mounts >> to which mount point. >> >> What are peoples opinions of what I should do? >If you can boot from floppy (I'm assuming install floppy) and see your >partitions you should be able to mount them. If you have record of the >files you moved you can initiate the fixit floppy and <copy> them back. > >I did something as serious before and recovered quite nicely this way. > > >I'm sure this will help. > _______________________________________ > |\ /| > | \ kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net / | > | \ Kevin G. Eliuk / | > | /^\_________________________/^\ | > | / \ | > |/--===### Powered By FreeBSD 2.2.1 \| > | www.freebsd.org | > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD <http://www.freebsd.org>; Top breeders recommend it Joachim Kuebart <joa@delos.lf.net> <joa@stuttgart.netsurf.de> <joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de> Germany Tel: +49 711 653706
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