From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 17:30:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jezebel.demon.co.uk (jezebel.demon.co.uk [158.152.38.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4777F37B423 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 17:30:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdls@jezebel.demon.co.uk) Received: (from rdls@localhost) by jezebel.demon.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4H0Qdc00401; Thu, 17 May 2001 01:26:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rdls) Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 01:25:23 +0100 From: Richard Smith To: Sue Blake Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Message-ID: <20010517012523.A326@gaia.home.rdls.net> References: <092901c0de59$7075ae30$0300a8c0@oracle> <20010516225130.26057.qmail@web11702.mail.yahoo.com> <20010517091433.N26110@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010517091433.N26110@welearn.com.au>; from sue@welearn.com.au on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:14:34AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:14:34AM +1000, Sue Blake wrote: > > Tim, see the FAQ under System Administration where it explains > what to do if you've lost your root password. > Your /usr/partition is not mounted at that stage, which is > why you can't see (or use) its contents. > > [...] At the question about the shell to use, hit ENTER. You'll be > dropped to a # prompt. Enter mount -u / to remount your root > filesystem read/write, then run mount -a to remount all the > filesystems. Run passwd root to change the root password then run > exit to continue booting. Why does the FAQ suggest that the `mount -u /' command precede the `mount -a' command when both mount(8) and experiment show it as being unnecessary? i.e. a simple `mount -a' achieves the same result. Rich. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message