I just suffered a hard drive failure. I'm trying to partition a new drive and restore it from a tape back up (in single user mode). I partitioned the new drive using the install disk, but it labeled my partitions as :

da1s1d
da1s2e
da1s3f
da1s4g

Whereas my original configuration was:

da1s1d
da1s2d
da1s3d
da1s4d

I either need to edit the drive labels or edit the fstab file. Unfortunately, vi is not behaving properly. It refuses to obey line breaks and is just spitting all the text out in a row (including the command interface at the bottom). This makes it virtually unusable.

So can anyone either help me do one of the following:

1) get vi working right

2) edit the fstab or disk labels without vi

3) mount the new partitions despite the mismatched fstab/labels

Thanks, and I will greatly appreciate any quick responses off the tops of your heads (naturally I'm trying to get this server back up asap)

I figured out why vi isn't displaying properly, but I don't know how to fix it. Basically, my TERM variable is not set to anything. I've tried setting it according to a few things I've found via Google, but so far no luck. vt100 doesn't fit the screen right and none of the others I've tried (con80x25 for example) are recognized.

The system is FreeBSD btw.

Nevermind, figured it out!

TERM=cons25

...apparently works.

Great :|

vi works, but the partitions aren't mounting as expected. sigh

EDIT:

But now that TERM is set, /stand/sysinstall works properly so I just redid the partitions.

Now I just need to dump the saved files from tape. Wish me luck.

By the way, one last question if anyone's caring: the files systems I'm restoring are /local /scratch /soft and /var

If I haven't installed any new software since the back up, am I going to miss any changes made in these file systems when I restore? All user home directories and mail are in different drives.