From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jul 25 22:23:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from nsyd.neis.com.au (nsyd.neis.net.au [203.18.160.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBB1037BE16 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:23:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Michael.Henry@neis.com.au) Received: from sunbox.neis.com.au (sunbox.neis.com.au [203.18.160.79]) by nsyd.neis.com.au (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15962 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:21:27 +1000 (EST) Received: from pilot ([172.16.1.138]) by sunbox.neis.com.au (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA06905 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:22:10 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:22:10 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200007260522.PAA06905@sunbox.neis.com.au> Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.newbies,mpc.lists.freebsd.newbies Subject: Re: booting single usr mode: / was not properly dismounted From: Michael.Henry@neis.com.au (Michael Henry) References: Organization: NEIS Pty. Ltd. User-Agent: Xnews/Y2K-SE To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> >> WARNING: / was not properly dismounted >> >> the root-device is now mounted read-only. Is there any way by which I >> can dismount this read-only filesystem and mount it as read-write. You have to fsck your filesystem: # fsck /dev/ad0s1a (substitute the device on which your root filesystem resides, of course). This will mark your filesystem "clean", so you can mount it read/write. By the way, the root filesystem cannot be dismounted. If it is mounted read-only you can mount it read/write by issuing the command: # mount -w /dev/ad0s1a To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message