From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Apr 1 4: 4:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A81815028 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 04:04:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 17710 invoked by alias); 1 Apr 1999 12:04:35 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 17684 invoked by uid 0); 1 Apr 1999 12:04:34 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 1 Apr 1999 12:04:34 -0000 Message-ID: <370360A7.6399C112@uswest.net> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 04:03:51 -0800 From: Nocturne Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zviad Sulaberidze Cc: Ulairi , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fatal mistake; HELP! References: <001f01be7c08$fb4f1880$85c4edd0@default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [format recovered] Ulairi wrote: >> please, teach me how to make the filesystem in single user mode >> "read-write", > >I could be wrong, but is it not just a switch you pass to mount? Reference man pages: mount(8) Zviad, to get your root FS and the FS containing your old fstab mounted, you have to manually mount the new and old root filesystems: mount -t ufs -w /dev/wd0s2e / mkdir /oldroot mount -t ufs -w /dev/da0s2a /oldroot Now you can backup your fstabs. After that, I would recommend you run /stand/sysinstall and use disklabel to have a new fstab written automatically. P.S. I know most newbies don't like posting to -questions for fear of getting flamed for asking a "stupid newbie question" (there is no such thing IMO), but -questions really is the best place to ask. Plus it lets more people see the question. -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message