From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 27 23:24:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFDE216A420 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:24:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from smtp1.utdallas.edu (smtp1.utdallas.edu [129.110.10.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7826D43D45 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:24:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from utd59514.utdallas.edu (utd59514.utdallas.edu [129.110.3.28]) by smtp1.utdallas.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B00F388C20 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:24:01 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:24:01 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200601272249.26518.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> References: <200601272249.26518.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: FreeBSD drops to single user mode X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:24:01 -0000 --On Friday, January 27, 2006 22:49:25 +0000 RW 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/