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Subject: Re: mouht r/w partition with ZFS
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> On 13 Mar 2016, at 21:52, Carmel <carmel_ny@outlook.com> wrote:
>=20
> Now, I can get onto the system in single use mood, but the system is
> read-only. I have tried "mount -a", but that does not help.

Note that `mount -a` doesn't affect already mounted filesystems.

> 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 /`

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Bradley T. Hughes
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