fstab and mount points

[kim]

Chris Bennett wrote:
> if you are adding/removing additional drives, you may run into the 
> problem of the system failing to boot if drive changes from wd0 to wd1 
> or vice versa.
> Just removing the second drive will also screw things up until you edit 
> fstab

I did it as two steps, took out the drives I wanted to swap out, cheked 
where it was after a reboot and then edited the /etc/fstab after 
sweating over the example in man fstab.

> You will need to mount / and /usr as read/write after using fsck -p on 
> each.
> What I had a hard time discovering was the need to use :
> export TERM=xterm (or vt220, etc.)
> to get an editor such as vi working
> 
> Seems to me that this ought to be added somewhere obvious, since not 
> knowing that last step is a real disaster to a newbie removing a disk!
> 

Id previously done this, hence asking here, and had no idea how to get 
unstuck so thanks for the additional bit of info.

cheers everyone

kim