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Date:      Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:41:08 -0500
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        Jeff Lush <jeff@nerdpower.com>
Cc:        Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FW:  Help with a bad hard disk
Message-ID:  <20000131004108.F26703@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBKIMGBBOBEOPLFCHIIEADCHAA.jeff@nerdpower.com>; from jeff@nerdpower.com on Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 10:17:57PM -0700
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.05.10001302344230.8325-100000@jason.argos.org> <NDBBKIMGBBOBEOPLFCHIIEADCHAA.jeff@nerdpower.com>

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On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 10:17:57PM -0700, Jeff Lush wrote:
[snip]
> Thanks for the help. My two biggest problems are that
> 1)I'm a bit of a newbie
> 2)I'm stuck in single user only mode and cannot mount the partition
> 
> To make things worse, I have cannot start the OS in multi user mode. My
> primary drive (Quantum Fireball 3.2GB) has all the system files and checks
> out fine from fsck. The bad WD disk only has a www directory. I have tried
> removing the WD disk and restarting, but fsck still complains and will not
> start. My goal is to edit fstab to remove the entries pointing the the bad
> WD disk, but I can't find a way to do it.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Ummm... You just said it. Edit /etc/fstab and then continue on to
multi-user. What's stopping you from editting /etc/fstab in
single-user mode?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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