From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 13 17: 3: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2AB037B68F for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:02:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA34087; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:02:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:02:47 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Cox, Tim" Cc: "'FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Blown FSTAB Message-ID: <20000313200247.B33859@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from Tim.Cox@jacobs.com on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 11:06:02AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 11:06:02AM -0500, Cox, Tim wrote: > Help! > > While in the process of loading quotas into the fstab, I incorrectly typed > in "rw,quotauser" into the /etc/fstab. Now my > system, will not boot. Any ideas? I can CAT and CP the /etc/fstab file but > VI will not work. That is because vi(1) is located in /usr/bin. Type whatever command is applicable in your system to mount /usr at the command prompt in single user mode. An example would be, # mount /dev/wd0s1f /usr Then you can use /usr/bin/vi. Of course, you could skip all of that and edit /etc/fstab with ed(1), /bin/ed. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message