[FAQ pointer] Re: How to start single user mode or safe mode

[Matthew Seaman]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:38:35AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:

This one is fine...

> # fsck /dev/ad4s1a  (I suppose boot)

but these two aren't:

> # fsck /dev/ad4s1b  (I suppose swap)
> # fsck /dev/ad4s1c  (I suppose /)

You can only run fsck(8) on partitions containing filesystems.  The
'b' partition is usually a swap area, which doesn't use any sort of
filesystem at all.  The 'c' partition usually maps to the whole slice
-- that is, it overlaps all of the actual partitions you're using for
your file systems.  You very rarely need to access the 'c' partition
specifically -- commands that affect the whole slice nowadays tend to
take ad4s1 or the equivalent as an argument.

Your /var and /usr partitions probably live on partitions 'e' and 'f'
-- possibly 'g' or 'h' as well if you have any other
partitions. disklabel(8) will show you what partitions have been
allocated.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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