Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 19:37:06 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Joe Pokupec <joepok@ninestar.com> Cc: Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SIngle User Mode Help Message-ID: <20040305090706.GJ67801@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <0HU3000VYHSO4G@mmp-3.gci.net> References: <0HU3000VYHSO4G@mmp-3.gci.net>
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--/qIPZgKzMPM+y5U5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 4 March 2004 at 23:48:05 -0900, Joe Pokupec wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot > correctly. I've learned to create a working fstab and call is fstab.orig > which I can overwrite the botched file if I end up in Single User Mode... > > I can't find any info on Single User Mode to help me: > > - I use mount -u / to mount the filesystem as read/write > > - I cannot access any editors like vi or pico (my personal) favorite once in > single user mode... Why? Probably because the file system on which they're located hasn't been mounted. Try: # mount /usr > - I can't use the locate command, because the /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb > script is not accessible Same thing. > - I can't su because this is not a recognized command In single user mode you should be root. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --/qIPZgKzMPM+y5U5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFASEM6IubykFB6QiMRAoKMAJ9xVb9KMjFx/uFuWUWGTTklNB9eyACcCsIz katqe6DY2LFVUVUAcWqtutI= =k8di -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/qIPZgKzMPM+y5U5--
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