From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 23:46:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F47F37B400; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 23:46:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (h24-71-223-10.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 901D143E4A; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 23:46:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from desmond.lee@shaw.ca) Received: from pd2mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr4so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.107]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H0G000JJO4W8K@l-daemon>; Wed, 07 Aug 2002 00:46:08 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml1so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml1so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.145]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H0G00ENVO4WXB@l-daemon>; Wed, 07 Aug 2002 00:46:08 -0600 (MDT) Received: from wetworks (h24-77-108-85.vc.shawcable.net [24.77.108.85]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with SMTP id <0H0G00B1JO4QG1@l-daemon>; Wed, 07 Aug 2002 00:46:07 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 23:49:25 -0700 From: Desmond Lee Subject: RE: some questions about upgrade and /etc/ files In-reply-to: <3D50B937.4671E861@pantherdragon.org> To: Darren Pilgrim Cc: freebsd-questions , scott@bsdprophet.org, kstewart@owt.com, grog@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey Darren Thanks again for the replies :) They totally help. >You can rebuild the contents of fstab from the output of `mount`. The >fstab file should look something like this: ># See the fstab(5) manual page for important information on automatic mounts ># of network filesystems before modifying this file. ># ># Device Mountpoint FStype Options, Dump, Pass# >/dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 >/dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 >/dev/ad0s1g /usr ufs rw 2 2 >/dev/ad0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2 >/dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 >proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 >With all those /dev/* entries changed to match the devices in your >`mount` output. Just, whatever you do, DO NOT REBOOT until you're >absolutely sure your /etc/fstab matches your mounted filesystems. >Otherwise you get to spend some time guessing at which partitions >were mounted where. Ah crap... i already rebooted. But, when i did a diff on fstab from the one downloaded from the source tree there was no difference? I don't think my system was properly mounted from before. Do you know any way to set this up easily? I got what was listed above, but no floppy or zip drive liste? Thanks darren :) Desmond To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message