From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 14:19:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1363337B41C for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:19:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from max ([24.61.57.241]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020330164422.RLNB2626.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@max>; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 16:44:22 +0000 Message-ID: <200203301144320965.145A1A7A@mail.attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20020330112329.00683c00@pop3.arnet.com.ar> References: <3.0.32.20020330112329.00683c00@pop3.arnet.com.ar> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:44:32 -0500 Reply-To: jdarnold@buddydog.org From: "Jonathan Arnold" To: "Noel Balansag" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help needed. how to re-mount / in rw mode. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >i experimented on editing /etc/fstab and mounted / in ro mode, and now, i >cannot edit anything even as root. short of re-installing fbsd, is there >any other way to re-mount / in rw mode? 1] Boot into single user mode by entering -s at the Boot: prompt 2] Use 'sh' for your shell if/when prompted 3] At the prompt type: # mount -u / This should mount the root filesystem read/write. Then you can edit= /etc/fstab -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://jdarnold.tzo.com/FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message