Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:53:06 -0400 From: "Jason" <username@cac.net> To: "Tomlinson, Drew" <Drew.Tomlinson@lc.ca.gov> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to Edit FSTAB When / is Read-Only Message-ID: <016701c01926$d78ae6b0$020aa8c0@morpheus> References: <8C224DC088D8D111B67D0000F67AC17E029C4AA4@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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at the prompt type mount -rw / or just mount / and it will mount it
read-write..
-Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tomlinson, Drew" <Drew.Tomlinson@lc.ca.gov>
To: "'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 7:47 PM
Subject: How to Edit FSTAB When / is Read-Only
> I am new to both Unix and FreeBSD so I apologize if this question is very
> elementary.
>
> I am running release 4.0 on a 486-DX with a 850 MB IDE drive. I have
since
> added a 6 GB IDE drive. I used /stand/sysinstall to both FDISK and Label
> the drive. Both drives in this system were FDISKed with the option to use
> all space for FBSD and not be compatible with other file systems.
>
> Next, I added the drives to /etc/fstab and then issued a mount -a. At
this
> point my system quit responding, even from the console port. Every
command
> I entered was invalid. Even simple commands like ls, pwd, cd, etc. no
> longer were valid. I had no choice other than to power off/on the
machine.
>
> Upon reboot, there were many errors that scrolled by before I could
capture
> them but they were all related to the new drive that I attempted to
install.
> After the errors, I'm left with a # prompt at the console. I assume this
is
> the sh shell. I believe if I can edit or change my /etc/fstab file, my
> problems will be gone and the system won't have mounting problems and will
> boot normally. Because the file system isn't mounted, the vi editor is
not
> available. I do have a backup of the fstab but when I attempt to copy it,
I
> get an error because the / filesystem is mounted read-only. What can I do
> to fix this problem?
>
> Here is the content of my /etc/fstab:
> # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump
> Pass#
> /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
> /dev/ad0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2
> /dev/ad0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2
> /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
> /dev/ad2s1b none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/ad2s1a / ufs rw 1 1
> /dev/ad2s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2
> /dev/ad2s1e /var ufs rw 2 2
> proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
> 192.168.0.254:/My_Webs /usr/local/www/data nfs ro,union 0 0
>
> Thanks in advance for your assistance!
>
> Drew
>
>
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