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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP! I broke my system!
Date: 20 Oct 1996 19:51:40 +0100
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In article <stanbDzFq7t.BoI@netcom.com>,
stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) writes:
: Somehow I have manage to delete the device files for myd disk
: partitions (eg /dev/wd0s1f etc). I booted the machine up with the install
: CD and have maged to get a valid partiton table written, and the root
: partition which gets mounted when the boot fails is OK. But it's
: mountred as read only so if I run /de/MAKEDEV with the correct options,
: t can't do it's job and complains about a read on filesystem. How can
: I get write permisssion to fix this ?
mount -u /
will do the job.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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