Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:24:01 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD drops to single user mode Message-ID: <B9D0F221218955434798EFD1@utd59514.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <200601272249.26518.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> References: <D35F1856C06510BC057B40AA@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <200601272249.26518.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
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--On Friday, January 27, 2006 22:49:25 +0000 RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> wrote: > On Friday 27 January 2006 21:36, Paul Schmehl wrote: >> Recently I experienced something that surprised me. I have a workstation >> with two SATA drives. The second drive is data only and is mounted r/w >> when the OS boots. We had a user whose (Windows) computer crashed and >> they wanted to know if we could recover the data. >> >> I said I'd see, and I unplugged the second drive (ad5 on FreeBSD, drive1 >> on Windows) and plugged in the suspect drive, fully expecting to mount >> it and copy files over. But, when FreeBSD booted, it failed to read ad5 >> and then dropped to single user mode. >> ... >> Here's my fstab, if that illuminates anything: >> >> ... >> /dev/ad5s1d /files ufs rw 2 2 > > > If you neglected to comment-out this line, FreeBSD would be looking for > this partition, which doesn't exist on the Windows drive. > I suspected that was the case, but if so, why did mount -a work? Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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