Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 02:59:26 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Lisa Williams <dlm55@lvcm.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rescue CD question (newbie) Message-ID: <20020326005926.GA1296@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <NGBBLAPOOLBNPHEJLIDKEEIJCAAA.dlm55@lvcm.com> References: <NGBBLAPOOLBNPHEJLIDKEEIJCAAA.dlm55@lvcm.com>
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On 2002-03-25 08:22, Lisa Williams wrote:
> I screwed up my /etc/fstab file. I copied an fstab file from a floppy and
> without checking to make sure it was properly copied, I rebooted. Now I
> can't boot.
>
> How do I use the rescue disc to mount the partitions? I've tried going to
> the fixit: prompt and typing: mount /(no good), mount dev/ad0s1a (no good)..
> mount /usr/ ( doesn't work either)
>
> How do I mount the hard drive, or does someone have a url I can go to to get
> information I need?
You want to use mount as shown in the example below:
# mount -t ufs -o ro /dev/ad0s1a /mnt
In this command line:
-t ufs => This is a BSD ufs filesystem we're mounting.
-o ro => Mount it as read-only.
/dev/ad0s1a => Partition 'a' of slice '1' in disk 'ad0'.
/mnt => Where to mount this partition.
The device name might be different from /dev/ad0s1a but you can use fdisk
and disklabel to view the slices and partitions of what disks you have.
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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