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Date:      Sun, 11 Aug 2002 02:00:26 -0700
From:      "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Subject:   Re: Fixit CD paradox: making device nodes 
Message-ID:  <20020811090027768.AAA344@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020811011204.C8ACF5D04@ptavv.es.net>
References:  Your message of "Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:09:34 PDT." <20020810170930466.AAA332@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> 

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On 10 Aug 2002 at 18:12, Kevin Oberman boldly uttered: 

> > From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com>
> > Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:09:34 -0700
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > 
> > Every time I try to use the Fixit CD to fix a problem with a disk I 
> > run into the same problem: I can't mount the disk because the device 
> > nodes are missing (ie ad0s1a), but I can't create device nodes 
> > because /dev or /dist/dev (when booting from the fixit CD) is read-
> > only.
> 
> You can only mount the root partition on any slice under fixit. I
> thought the initial message told you about this, but I may be
> mis-remembering.
> 
> # mount /dev/ad0s1 /mnt
> 
> will mount the "a" partition at the /mnt point. This assumes that the
> root partition is the 'a' partition.


OK, so in this case is ad0s1 essentially an alias for "ad0s1a"?  If 
so, I didn't realize that and thanks for the tip. (I always thought 
ad0s1c was the equivalent to ad0s1)

What happens if one needs to mount, say, /usr?

Thx,

Phil

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Philip J. Koenig                                       
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