Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:31:49 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> To: FreeBSD current mailing list <current@freebsd.org> Subject: mount -uw / does not work in boot -s Message-ID: <20070911212720.K58095@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
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Hi, if you boot -s on a HEAD and try to mount -uw / it will fail to update the mount if you do not have a /etc/fstab. The fstab part is the key to this. With an /etc/fstab everything seems to work just smoothly but how to touch the fstab if you cannot mount the fs rw? 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). -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT Software is harder than hardware so better get it right the first time.
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