Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 16:03:02 -0600 From: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>, Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1011423273.2bdf31@mired.org> Cc: questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: can't mount / properly, fstab woes Message-ID: <200201142202.g0EM2tt05345@midway.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0201141055250.20828-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> References: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0201141055250.20828-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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On Monday 14 January 2002 04:59 am, Jan Grant wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Mike Meyer wrote: > > David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> types: > > > On Saturday 12 January 2002 07:40 pm, Chris Fedde wrote: > > > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 19:00:02 -0600 David Syphers wrote: > > > > > > I can't. That's what I meant when I said that "it won't let me mount / > > > read-write." I tried > > > > > > # mount -u -w / > > > # mount -u -w /dev/ad0s1a > > > # mount -u -w -f /dev/ad0s1a > > > > > > and none of them work. They all give the error "fstab /etc/fstab :3: > > > inappropriate file type or format". Why is it looking at fstab anyway, > > > if I've specified the device name? > > > > Because you didn't specify the mount point? I'm not able to test this, > > but I'd suggest: > > > > 1) shutdown -r > > 2) reboot to single user mode > > 3) mount -u -o ro / /dev/ad0s1a > > Switch the last two parameters around. I assume what I really want is 'mount -u -o rw /dev/ad0s1a /', correct? The option 'ro' isn't documented in the FreeBSD manpage, but is in the RedHat manpage :) -David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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