Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:12:36 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "W. J. Williams" <will@willardjwilliams.com> Cc: Noel Balansag <pongkee@yahoo.com>, Tom Parquette <bcsfd204@twcny.rr.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do i invoke the command "ee" or "vi" when system fails to load Message-ID: <20030312161236.GB5097@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20030312070705.27076.qmail@web13509.mail.yahoo.com> References: <3E6E775B.8070208@twcny.rr.com> <20030312070705.27076.qmail@web13509.mail.yahoo.com>
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[Please don't top post.] On 2003-03-11 23:07, "W. J. Williams" <will@willardjwilliams.com> wrote: >Tom Parquette <bcsfd204@twcny.rr.com> wrote: >> Noel, From your description I'm assuming you are going into single >> user mode. >> >> It sounds like fstab is pointing in the wrong place. If you can >> figure out where your /usr filesystem is you can issue a mount >> command to remount it. Once you have /usr mounted, "ee" should >> work for you. Hope this helps. Cheers... > > ironic...I dorked something up last night in my lab and found myself > in the same predicament...my mentor had me invoke the mount -a > command which brought me out of read only mode so I could run vi to > fix my rc.conf...hope this helps... Nah. It's not a good idea to use "mount -a" before fsck. The safest thing you can do if you haven't tinkered with the sizes and/or order of the partitions is to run: # fsck -p && mount -u / && mount -va Then you can use vi from /usr/bin or vim, emacs, joe, pico, nano or whatever from /usr/local/bin :-) - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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