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"