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Date:      Mon, 27 Jan 1997 21:42:41 -0500
From:      Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
To:        "A. Radovanovic" <radova@risc6.unisa.ac.za>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help - can't login
Message-ID:  <32ED67A1.446B9B3D@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
References:  <9701261744.AA27426@risc6.unisa.ac.za>

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A. Radovanovic wrote:
> 
> My freebsd ran out of disk space in /. Unfortunately I rebooted the
> system and now I can't get in - no username or password are accepted.
> If I boot in a single user mode, the file system is mounted as a read
> only and I can't do anything with the passwd file.
> 
> Is there any way to get in and repair the damage?
> 
Wow..finally a question I can answer! I too have done this deed...

You need to mount your root partion with "/". This will make the
file system read/write. As in, "mount /dev/wd0a / " .

regards,
Jim Durham



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