Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 14:33:02 -0700 From: "vizion communication" <vizion@ixpres.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: How to ignore device on fstab on boot? Message-ID: <00bf01c3173b$ca0ced60$15b55042@vizion2000.net>
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Hi I have a raid system on a compaq which is arranged as three disks. idad1 idad2 idad3 idad3 has one slice /dev/idad3s1 which normally mounts /xyz. /xyz does not hold any data needed at boot time. /dev/idad3s1e is in the fstab file but due to missing superblocks will not mount at boot time - (I inadevertently trashed it so it lost all copies of the superblock). In consequence the system does not boot into multi-user to enable me to newfs /dev/idads1e! The boot fails with fsck naturally being unable to recover. What I need to do is persuade the system to boot without trying to mount /dev/idad3s1e. However when fsck fails in single user mode I am unable to edit the fstab file and remove the entry as the file system remains read only. If I try to newfs from single user /dev/idad3s1e I get report 'e' partition is unavailable.. If I try and use the disk label editor by booting from the freebsd 4.7 install disk to newfs from there the label editor refuses to newfs just that disk because a root partition has not been defined. I know there is a simple solution -- I know I have done it b4 -- but I cannot remember how!!! David
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