From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 12 13:08:35 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2CA416A417 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:08:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from frontmail.ipactive.de (frontmail.maindns.de [85.214.95.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 681BA13C45A for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:08:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from mail.vtec.ipme.de (Q7d96.q.ppp-pool.de [89.53.125.150]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by frontmail.ipactive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7AF12883F; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:43:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cesar.sz.vwsoft.com (cesar.sz.vwsoft.com [192.168.16.3]) (Authenticated sender: vwerth@bellona.sz.vwsoft.com) by mail.vtec.ipme.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 466223F43E; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:41:25 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <46E7DF04.2000803@vwsoft.com> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:43:48 +0200 From: Volker User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070807) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" References: <20070911212720.K58095@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> In-Reply-To: <20070911212720.K58095@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1190205692.53316@LC5EoMY9PPNYleE4MucxPQ X-VWSoft-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com X-ipactive-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ipactive-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ipactive-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com Cc: FreeBSD current mailing list Subject: Re: mount -uw / does not work in boot -s X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:08:35 -0000 On 12/23/-58 20:59, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > Neither > mount -uw / > mount -u -o rw / > mount -uw /dev/... / > mount -u -o rw /dev/... / > > work. The versions with the /dev/... / do not seem to give an error > message but a mount afterwards shows that / is still read-only. > > The filesystem was clean upon boot and no fsck was run (I know there > is another problem after fsck I think). I think I remember I've had the same (or something similar) on a 6.2-RELEASE box recently (so not just a -CURRENT problem). I had a typo in fstab and was unable to mount root writeable as the root fs entry was wrong in fstab. I'm quite unsure how I solved that problem (can't remember).