From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 11 16:13:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA18304 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 16:13:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phil.digitaladvantage.net (phil.digitaladvantage.net [207.40.157.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA18299 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 16:13:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pamela.digitaladvantage.net (pamela.digitaladvantage.net [207.40.157.16]) by phil.digitaladvantage.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA16746; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 16:57:57 -0500 (CDT) From: zeeb@digitaladvantage.net (Russ Panula) To: Justin Ashworth Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/wd0s2* not mounting Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 18:22:47 -0600 Organization: Digital Advantage Corporation Message-ID: <320e76f1.13650111@mail.digitaladvantage.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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