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Date:      Sun, 11 Aug 1996 18:22:47 -0600
From:      zeeb@digitaladvantage.net (Russ Panula)
To:        Justin Ashworth <ashworth@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /dev/wd0s2* not mounting
Message-ID:  <320e76f1.13650111@mail.digitaladvantage.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960811162302.11686A-100000@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
References:  <Pine.OSF.3.91.960811162302.11686A-100000@fubar.cs.montana.edu>

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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



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