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Date:      Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:43:48 +0200
From:      Volker <volker@vwsoft.com>
To:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD current mailing list <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mount -uw / does not work in boot -s
Message-ID:  <46E7DF04.2000803@vwsoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070911212720.K58095@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
References:  <20070911212720.K58095@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>

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On 12/23/-58 20:59, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> 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).

I think I remember I've had the same (or something similar) on a
6.2-RELEASE box recently (so not just a -CURRENT problem).

I had a typo in fstab and was unable to mount root writeable as the
root fs entry was wrong in fstab. I'm quite unsure how I solved that
problem (can't remember).



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