From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 27 20:55:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE2337B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 20:55:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from pop015.verizon.net (pop015pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB30A43F3F for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 20:55:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([129.44.40.202]) by pop015.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.20 201-253-122-126-120-20021101) with ESMTP id <20030128045542.DLHO21001.pop015.verizon.net@mac.com>; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:55:42 -0600 Message-ID: <3E360D4E.5060507@mac.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:55:42 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: bastill@adam.com.au Subject: Re: Fixit instructions References: <1043728084.3e3606d4a3b6a@webmail.adam.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1043728084.3e3606d4a3b6a@webmail.adam.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop015.verizon.net from [129.44.40.202] at Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:55:41 -0600 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 bastill@adam.com.au wrote: [ ... ] > The only helpful instruction I have found on the use of the Fixit disk are these: > "You will then be placed into a shell with a wide variety of commands available > (in the /stand and /mnt2/stand directories) for checking, repairing and > examining file systems and their contents. Some UNIX administration experience > is required to use the fixit option." > > Surely there must be something more comprehensive than this? Lots and lots. cd /stand touch /tmp/docs foreach file ( * ) man -p /bin/cat $file >> /tmp/docs end ...produces about two hundred pages worth of documentation. Comprehensive, but perhaps not organized effectively. However, the FreeBSD Handbook, or O'Reillys "Essential System Administration", might be better starting places as tutorials/problem-solving resources. -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message