Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 01:29:24 -0700 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: charon@seektruth.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't mount / properly, fstab woes Message-ID: <200201150829.g0F8TO874541@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <200201132254.g0DMsGt02191@midway.uchicago.edu>
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On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 16:54:20 -0600 David Syphers wrote:
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| What did I do that was wrong, then? All I changed was / to read-only. This
,
| and this alone, caused my web server to stop functioning. I could achieve
| the same level of convenience and even better security by pulling out the
| power plug.
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I feel your pain. It appears that something on your / filesystem
wanted to be written to. Before changing a file system to read only
you will want to audit the drive and be sure that nothing is modifying
it. One way to do that is to see if any files on the disk are newer
than the kernel. find / -xdev -newer /kernel -print.
An approach to fixing the problem is to boot from the "live file
system" CD or from the fixit floppy. Then fsck the broken / device
and mount it readwrite on /a or /mnt. Finally edit the
broken file, sync, sync and reboot.
Again I wish you the best of luck.
--
Chris Fedde
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