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Date:      Tue, 28 May 2002 21:37:22 -0400
From:      "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>
To:        David Loszewski <drlski@attbi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problem with startup, need help ASAP
Message-ID:  <9F2AF87A-72A4-11D6-8626-000502EDE760@shire.net>
In-Reply-To: <3CF43D87.8050401@attbi.com>

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On Tuesday, May 28, 2002, at 10:31 , David Loszewski wrote:

> I'm having a problem where I just added another harddrive.  The only 
> problem is that I think I named the drive wrong in fstab.  I named it 
> as /dev/da3s1e but when I try to boot the machine up it comes up saying
>
> /dev/da3s1e: CANNOT READ: BLK 16
> /dev/da3s1e: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY
> THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM HAD AN UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY:
>        /dev/da3s1e (/homeserv3)
> Automatic file system check failed...help!
> Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
>
> if I hit return that brings me into single-user mode I think but none 
> of the drives are mounted so I don't have any commands like the vi 
> command or ee command to edit the fstab file.  What is the file 
> supposed to look like in the fstab and how would I edit it if I can't 
> edit it?

You can mount your /usr partition at this point.  You can try and mount 
any of the partitions.  Once you mount /usr you will have vi etc.

Chad


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