From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 31 14:34:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA06582 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:34:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spectre.honk.org (honk.org [206.191.48.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06555 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:34:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpoulin@honk.org) Received: from localhost (mpoulin@localhost) by spectre.honk.org (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA08791 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:25:35 -0400 Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:25:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Marty Poulin To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting/unmounting disks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Sean Harding wrote: > > Unmount usr shouldn't require a re-install. A simple reboot should bring > it back to its old state, unless you took it out of /etc/fstab as > well... Looks like the cat is out of the bag. OK, I admit it!! I took it out of /etc/fstab first!! please stop reminding me... I just want to put this in my past... > Or you can just mount it back up manually. Yeah, it will probably > bring your system down, but it shouldn't really be a big deal... > > Sean Well, I didn't just unmount it and edit /etc/fstab. I also foolishly moved a bunch of files around, apparently losing some important ones. Believe me. The system was toast. (And it was a good excuse to wipe my 1GB HD I had used for Windoze and install FreeBSD on IT). M. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message