From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 13 10:31:49 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 223621065672 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:31:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A95D8FC12 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:31:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:fa1e:dfff:feda:c0bb]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q0DAVbdg080596 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:31:43 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.4.1 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk q0DAVbdg080596 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infracaninophile.co.uk; s=201001-infracaninophile; t=1326450703; bh=YCxhmNDuTLN2ah40uH0EIhjTF6O190qOkhQK4Im0e2Y=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Cc; b=OTsrELwcRVecfR6ua2rUgoKE3VTVLZBrr6Tp2nVPn6kdgShgVRSDCGFnBtA4xpl9Q 454idnIEa7YyYsHk/0J5XTFKcCD3IgQtaI25cgeIMAG/Xsa4CLofwiSeXyGVAmCZPG H+vhBBno5WdlHEYCjon/ngQQPDUeF85a+msV7E8o= Message-ID: <4F100802.6070805@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:31:30 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F100104.6010904@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <4F100104.6010904@bananmonarki.se> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 OpenPGP: id=60AE908C Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigF9110CECBDEA322F523C411E" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.3 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, URIBL_BLACK autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: fstab problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:31:49 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigF9110CECBDEA322F523C411E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 13/01/2012 10:01, Bernt Hansson wrote: > Hello list! >=20 > I've moved /etc/fstab to /etc/fstab.org >=20 > When booting I get prompted with >=20 >>mountroot >=20 > Ok. I type ufs:ad0s1a >=20 > The crap boot up. But I can't get the filesystem to become R/W >=20 > Tried /sbin/mount -o rw /ad0s1a / > /sbin/mount -o rw,force /ad0s1a / > /sbin/mount -o force /ad0s1a / >=20 > But /sbin/mount only shows ro. >=20 > Don't really know what to do, except reinstall and that's a noop. fsck /dev/ad0s1a /sbin/mount -u -o rw /dev/ad0s1a / You should then be able to recover /etc/fstab, fix any problems within it and then on exit, the system should continue with a normal multi-user bootup. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW --------------enigF9110CECBDEA322F523C411E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8QCAkACgkQ8Mjk52CukIw7LgCcCgKklsF3ZCgWy0Me2xQlY/ih ef8Ani3BoRco9pO0fAiC3F+8vU7XeswL =M1uc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigF9110CECBDEA322F523C411E--