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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!news.mindspring.com!mindspring!uunet!in1.uu.net!olivea!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!news From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Cannot mout /usr or /var Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 13:34:58 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 22 Message-ID: <327AC162.7403@OntheNet.com.au> References: <55c5dn$5sh@garcia.efn.org> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: Chris Brunner <cjb@efn.org> Chris Brunner wrote: > > Help! > I cannot mount the /usr or the /var filesystems!!! > The appropriate devices are gone, and I can't make new ones because it > say read-only file system. What do I do? > Thanks! > Panic?! No... what you need to do is get the root filesystem writable. I've done that in the past by simply typing- # mount -a -t ufs and / should now be rw. You can now go to /dev and ./MAKEDEV whatever you need to do for you other filesystems! > -- > -Chris Brunner > --cjb@efn.org- > ---Eugene, OR- > ----USA------- Tony