From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 7 15:11:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B69F37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 15:11:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: (qmail 8771 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2001 22:20:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iowna.com) (151.201.71.193) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 7 Jun 2001 22:20:15 -0000 Message-ID: <3B1FFBA5.DCF1A0BC@iowna.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 18:09:41 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk woes References: <3B1F9740.10190.1158C4@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mountpoints are recorded in /etc/fstab. The format is fairly self-explanitory, but if you've questions, the man page is helpful. YOu can also remout things manually to get your system back to where you want it and then edit /etc/fstab to make sure those mounts stay across a reboot. umount /usr will unmount your user partition, while mount /dev/da0s1b /usr will mount the second partition of your first SCSI disk to /usr (for example) See the man pages for more. -Bill "Philip J. Koenig" wrote: > > Trying to upgrade the HD in a 4.3-STABLE box. > > Traditionally I used /stand/sysinstall but had some problems, tried > to run fdisk and disklabel separately. Where are the interactive > modes of these utilities like how they work in sysinstall? All I can > invoke are these ugly things that seem to require all the options/ > changes entered on the command line. > > So I went back into sysinstall, disklabel editor. Made the mistake > of entering the mount points as /, /usr, /var etc. instead of > /mnt/.., and disklabel happily overwrote the current mountpoints, > after I realized my mistake disklabel said I couldn't change from > there, I had to exit sysinstall and re-run it. > > Voila, I exit sysinstall and now the box is useless, can't even do a > "ls" command. > > How do I recover from this.. will the mountpoints still be screwed on > a reboot, can I fix this running single-user or do I need a boot > floppy? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message