From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 19:52:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cac.net (mail.cac.net [209.44.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D4337B422 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:52:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from morpheus (05-108.008.popsite.net [209.69.13.108]) by mail.cac.net (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA22457; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:56:09 -0400 Message-ID: <016701c01926$d78ae6b0$020aa8c0@morpheus> From: "Jason" To: "Tomlinson, Drew" Cc: References: <8C224DC088D8D111B67D0000F67AC17E029C4AA4@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> Subject: Re: How to Edit FSTAB When / is Read-Only Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:53:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG at the prompt type mount -rw / or just mount / and it will mount it read-write.. -Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tomlinson, Drew" To: "'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'" 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message