I recently made some changes with the partitions on my system and neglected to update fstab. As the system booted, a message appeared, stating I could:
1. type Ctrl-D to continue (I tried that, and it caused the computer to reboot and stop anew at the same problem - not very useful); or
2. type the root password to fix the problem.
Upon trying the second method, the system logged me in, but I was unable to fix anything because the partitions were mounted read only. This is also not useful.
How am I supposed to fix the problem (I knew exactly what it was) when I am barred from changing anything?
Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
I recently made some changes with the partitions on my system and neglected to update fstab. As the system booted, a message appeared, stating I could:
type Ctrl-D to continue (I tried that, and it caused the computer to reboot and stop anew at the same problem - not very useful); or
type the root password to fix the problem.
Upon trying the second method, the system logged me in, but I was unable to fix anything because the partitions were mounted read only. This is also not useful.
How am I supposed to fix the problem (I knew exactly what it was) when I am barred from changing anything?
mount -rw (man mount is even better ;)
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 21:25 +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote:
Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
I recently made some changes with the partitions on my system and neglected to update fstab. As the system booted, a message appeared, stating I could:
type Ctrl-D to continue (I tried that, and it caused the computer to reboot and stop anew at the same problem - not very useful); or
type the root password to fix the problem.
Upon trying the second method, the system logged me in, but I was unable to fix anything because the partitions were mounted read only. This is also not useful.
How am I supposed to fix the problem (I knew exactly what it was) when I am barred from changing anything?
mount -rw (man mount is even better ;)
mount -o remount,rw ...
is probably better if the fs is already mounted.
poc
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:25:12PM +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote:
Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
... the system logged me in, but I was unable to fix anything because the partitions were mounted read only. This is also not useful.
How am I supposed to fix the problem (I knew exactly what it was) when I am barred from changing anything?
mount -rw (man mount is even better ;)
Not precisely. 'mount -o rw,remount /'.
M.
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