From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 3 00:17:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA13182 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:17:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA13155 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:17:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA22769; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:17:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:17:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Marco Shaw cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MOUNTING in fixit mode In-Reply-To: <000501bd8e16$5a2d8800$0a22a10a@ipo10161034010.nbtel.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Marco Shaw wrote: > I've had to enter fixit mode to fix a mistake I made with my system. I > tried via the fixit diskette, and the 'live file system' cd, but once in, I > can't figure out how to mount the / partition. > > If I try 'df -k', I get something like: > > root_device xx xx xx / > /dev/fd0 xx xx xx /mnt2 > > Should I be typing something like: > > mount /dev/wd0s3 / > > to mount the proper partition? That's a bit extra. You can see fstab, so just run: mount -u / mount -a to bring all your filesystems back. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message