Re: i messed up, need to do fsck and also uncomment the /usr line if /etc/fstab
Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com writes: I had an old FBSD 7.2 CD. good enough for this I thought. I booted from that but now I need to mount the file systems on my hard drive. How do I do that? I agree,, once I get the /etc file system mounted I can edit the file. Okay, next.. How do I do an fsck on the /usr file system when coming up? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#RCCONF-READONLY ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: i messed up, need to do fsck and also uncomment the /usr line if /etc/fstab
On 7 May 2011 04:31, Yuri Pankov yuri.pan...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:06:31PM -0400, Henry Olyer wrote: Woe is me. First, I simply messed up, happens to us all from time to time. I lost power on an laptop running 8.2. Restarted it but for some reason the fsck didn't run and I lost some /usr files. I tried to do an fsck manually but because it's mounted I got nowhere. So I put a comment (#) in front of the /usr line for the /etc/fstab file. Now, I can't boot. I need what's on my disk -- of course! Boot to single user mode (4 in the boot menu), remount / read-write - mount -u -o rw /, edit /etc/fstab (you'll probably need to mount /usr manually if what's in /rescue doesn't work for you), reboot. You can run fsck from single user mode, as well. HTH, Yuri Easiest way in single user if vi complains about termcap and you don't understand ed... As Yuri suggested: # fsck / # mount -ie / Then you can just use sed in place; # sed -i.bak -e 's,#\(.*/usr\),\1,' /etc/fstab # fsck /usr # reboot Hope that helps! Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
i messed up, need to do fsck and also uncomment the /usr line if /etc/fstab
Woe is me. First, I simply messed up, happens to us all from time to time. I lost power on an laptop running 8.2. Restarted it but for some reason the fsck didn't run and I lost some /usr files. I tried to do an fsck manually but because it's mounted I got nowhere. So I put a comment (#) in front of the /usr line for the /etc/fstab file. Now, I can't boot. I need what's on my disk -- of course! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: i messed up, need to do fsck and also uncomment the /usr line if /etc/fstab
Boot to a boot disk.. anything... CD, DVD, USB Load up vi - you can probably do this from a live linux distro. Unedit the line. Save. Quit. Reboot. You're golden. On May 6, 2011, at 9:06 PM, Henry Olyer wrote: Woe is me. First, I simply messed up, happens to us all from time to time. I lost power on an laptop running 8.2. Restarted it but for some reason the fsck didn't run and I lost some /usr files. I tried to do an fsck manually but because it's mounted I got nowhere. So I put a comment (#) in front of the /usr line for the /etc/fstab file. Now, I can't boot. I need what's on my disk -- of course! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: i messed up, need to do fsck and also uncomment the /usr line if /etc/fstab
I had an old FBSD 7.2 CD. good enough for this I thought. I booted from that but now I need to mount the file systems on my hard drive. How do I do that? I agree,, once I get the /etc file system mounted I can edit the file. Okay, next.. How do I do an fsck on the /usr file system when coming up? On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.comwrote: Boot to a boot disk.. anything... CD, DVD, USB Load up vi - you can probably do this from a live linux distro. Unedit the line. Save. Quit. Reboot. You're golden. On May 6, 2011, at 9:06 PM, Henry Olyer wrote: Woe is me. First, I simply messed up, happens to us all from time to time. I lost power on an laptop running 8.2. Restarted it but for some reason the fsck didn't run and I lost some /usr files. I tried to do an fsck manually but because it's mounted I got nowhere. So I put a comment (#) in front of the /usr line for the /etc/fstab file. Now, I can't boot. I need what's on my disk -- of course! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: i messed up, need to do fsck and also uncomment the /usr line if /etc/fstab
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:06:31PM -0400, Henry Olyer wrote: Woe is me. First, I simply messed up, happens to us all from time to time. I lost power on an laptop running 8.2. Restarted it but for some reason the fsck didn't run and I lost some /usr files. I tried to do an fsck manually but because it's mounted I got nowhere. So I put a comment (#) in front of the /usr line for the /etc/fstab file. Now, I can't boot. I need what's on my disk -- of course! Boot to single user mode (4 in the boot menu), remount / read-write - mount -u -o rw /, edit /etc/fstab (you'll probably need to mount /usr manually if what's in /rescue doesn't work for you), reboot. You can run fsck from single user mode, as well. HTH, Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
