From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 25 07:59:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA20757 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 07:59:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jocki.domestic (kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de [194.233.216.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA20748 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 07:59:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from joki@localhost) by jocki.domestic (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA00656; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 16:59:25 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.0 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 16:28:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: Joachim Kuebart To: Kevin Eliuk Subject: Re: oops. Cc: questions@freebsd.org, abbott at MPCA , Kevin Eliuk Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 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 Top breeders recommend it Joachim Kuebart Germany Tel: +49 711 653706