From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 31 08:54:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08255 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 08:54:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08246 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 08:54:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrisc@vmunix.com) Received: from localhost (chrisc@localhost) by vnode.vmunix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA16157; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 11:53:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chrisc@vmunix.com) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 11:53:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Coleman X-Sender: chrisc@vnode To: Martin Poulin cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting/unmounting disks In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980831111741.0090b4b0@honk.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It you accidentally umount a normally mounted partition, you can type 'mount -a' and it will remount all the drives you normally have mounted. It finds them in /etc/fstab like it does at boot up and then mounts them. -Chris On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Martin Poulin wrote: > A word of caution to anyone considering playing around > with mount/umount without really understanding what you > are doing - > > DON'T!!! > > Thankfully I had my important files backed up, but > boy-oh-boy what a weekend it's been. > > I learned a few things though, so it wasn't a total loss. > (like don't unmount your /usr directory - I don't know > how I managed to do that, but I did.) > > 2 installs later (don't ask) and I have my system almost > back to where it was. > > M. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message