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From: "Niclas Zeising" <niclas.zeising@gmail.com>
To: "DSA - JCR" <juancr@dsa.es>
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Subject: Re: How to update fstab (or other) in Single User (read only fs)
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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
>
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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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