Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:05:12 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Joel Hatton <joel@auscert.org.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to successfully mount /root if not in fstab? Message-ID: <1E281F2D-E4A6-11D8-A5B8-003065ABFD92@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200408020649.i726n3iP025630@app.auscert.org.au> References: <200408020649.i726n3iP025630@app.auscert.org.au>
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On Aug 2, 2004, at 2:49 AM, Joel Hatton wrote: > I've been caught out (twice now - yes, I was stupid enough to do this > twice!) with mounting /root after removing a hard disk from my system > and > would like to know why it wasn't trivial to recover. The system requires a working root account in order to be repairable in single-user mode. One consequence of this is that /root needs to be on the same partition as /, for much the same reasons that /bin or /etc needs to be on /. -- -Chuck
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