Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 18:22:47 -0600 From: zeeb@digitaladvantage.net (Russ Panula) To: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@fubar.cs.montana.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/wd0s2* not mounting Message-ID: <320e76f1.13650111@mail.digitaladvantage.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960811162302.11686A-100000@fubar.cs.montana.edu> References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960811162302.11686A-100000@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
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On Sun, 11 Aug 1996 16:29:43 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: > I went and did something really stupid that sounded good at the time. I >got into /dev and did './MAKEDEV all'. I guess that did something bad to >my /dev/wd0s2 slice because now the filesystems on that slice won't mount >and I am forced into single-user mode with that prompt asking if I'd >like to use 'sh' as my shell. If I could get just enough help to boot my >system to the point where I can recover some files out of /usr/*, I'd >really appreciate it. > >Thanks! > >- Justin J. Ashworth >-- CS Student - Montana State University >--- Chair, Association for Computing Machinery - MSU >-- ashworth@cs.montana.edu >- http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth > > Try 'MAKEDEV wd0s2a' ... fsck might help ... More importantly, check /etc/fstab for errors. More than likely, you are mounting '/dev/wd0s2c' in fstab, and the 'MAKEDEV all' happily blew away '/dev/wd0s2c'. Russ
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