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Date:      Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:46:40 -0400
From:      taxman <taxman@acd.net>
To:        Jamie <jamie@gnulife.org>, Sunil Sunder Raj <unixtools@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to Reset a Forgotten Root Password
Message-ID:  <200304170846.40690.taxman@acd.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030416225147.E13034-100000@floyd.gnulife.org>
References:  <20030416225147.E13034-100000@floyd.gnulife.org>

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On Wednesday 16 April 2003 11:54 pm, Jamie wrote:
>    Hmmm...maybe I am wrong but I thought you had to remount the '/'
> partition in rw mode also:
>
> mount -urw /

according to mount(8) -a will mount according to /etc/fstab  so unless you 
have it as ro in fstab, it will get mounted rw with mount -a

Tim



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