Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:42:43 +0100 From: "Niclas Zeising" <niclas.zeising@gmail.com> To: "DSA - JCR" <juancr@dsa.es> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to update fstab (or other) in Single User (read only fs) Message-ID: <bc292860702060242n5759c391u14850f8283dda28a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4810.217.114.136.133.1170755012.squirrel@llca513-a.servidoresdns.net> References: <4810.217.114.136.133.1170755012.squirrel@llca513-a.servidoresdns.net>
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On 2/6/07, DSA - JCR <juancr@dsa.es> wrote: > Hi all > > FreeBSD 6.2 i386 > > I need to edit fstab to delete a geom mirror dev in order to boot my PC > and I can=B4t because when my computer boots find a problem in fstab > (because geom mirror device not ok) and then go to Single User mode. > > In this mode I can=B4t edit fstab, because there is not editor working (I= =B4ve > tried ee, vi.. all says "fs is readonly") > > How can I do this? I think there must be a way to do it, isn't it? > > thanks in advance > > Juan Coru=F1a > Desarrollo de Software Atlantico > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > You have to remount / rw, try mount -uw / from the command line prompt you get when you are in single user mode, then use vi /etc/fstab or /rescue/vi /etc/fstab if the regular vi won't work. HTH! //Niclas --
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