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Date:      Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:21:13 -0500
From:      Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com>
To:        "Bradley T. Hughes" <bradleythughes@fastmail.fm>
Cc:        Carmel <carmel_ny@outlook.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mouht r/w partition with ZFS
Message-ID:  <868u1m2cd2.fsf@WorkBox.Home>
In-Reply-To: <684CA226-DCF6-42D6-A551-69692D26D70A@fastmail.fm>
References:  <BLU436-SMTP21127D620EE3ED3B285A0D180B70@phx.gbl> <684CA226-DCF6-42D6-A551-69692D26D70A@fastmail.fm>

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Bradley T. Hughes writes:

>> This is a ZFS filesystem. How can I get read/write access to the files,
>> rc.conf specifically?
>
> I'm assuming your /etc/rc.conf is on the root filesystem. In which case you need to remount / read-write with `mount -uw /`

Perhaps a little better:

`zfs set readonly=off <filesystem_name>`

Either should work in single-user mode, but changing the read-only
status of a ZFS filesystem doesn't reaquire unmounting and re-mounting
it.

-- 
:: Brandon Wandersee
:: brandon.wandersee@gmail.com



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