From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 21 21:30:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73DE16A400 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:30:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scphantm@yahoo.com) Received: from smtp114.plus.mail.re1.yahoo.com (smtp114.plus.mail.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.102.77]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A88713C45D for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:30:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scphantm@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 63008 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2007 21:30:12 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=IiQ6xedGyCJgat8nvRNz7i0xjFhIZcEfqUcJe5O1gDi2ejIJEW4fv4ORFbkXUUjHdprDK+l/N3k9Db4pKe4mKMG+7Algijv6DyzoRrbk/jfymL+hIzrdsdFIdNGUl/Hvem+9NJcGYk2cPk9CO738gGTZN7QC+OeZ8My62T4IZRA= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.100?) (scphantm@65.35.191.170 with plain) by smtp114.plus.mail.re1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Jun 2007 21:30:11 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: qv1NU0wVM1lcBG50qhHHeUFa3ePJxmbKAW.tj64SPyFBV.akenTq7wBfWhmghWlVvFkixGjzzxLpb7oKvIfSVqZomPLPlalhLvEKm9RwCpoRJOR4YBrQg6ZXZSnq Message-ID: <467AEDE3.5000801@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:30:11 -0400 From: Steel City Phantom User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) To: Lowell Gilbert References: <467ACC6F.8010907@yahoo.com> <44hcp1xblh.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44hcp1xblh.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remounting a drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:30:17 -0000 tried mount -u rw / and mount -u rw /dev/ad1s1 / with the same result, no permission error next idea or did i get the command wrong Lowell Gilbert wrote: Steel City Phantom [1] writes: ok, i had a working bsd system. i shut it down, and removed a drive from it to use in another computer i turn it on and i get mounting errors, nothing unsual, can't find drives from the manualroot prompt i put in the path to the root partition to the drive that is still in the machine i boot to single user mode im now trying to edit my fstab so i can boot normally (the drive numbers moved from ad1 to ad0 because i removed a hardrive) i can see all the files, i mounted my /usr partition, but for some reason i can't remount the / parition to edit the fstab. when i enter the command mount -o rw / i get operation not permitted. i tried mount -o rw /dev/ad1s1 / and mount -o rw /dev/ad0s1 /and got the same thing. ive used this in the past and it works, i don't know why its not working now. any ideas? bsd 6.2 if it matters when i do mount /dev/ad1s1 on / (ufs, local, read-only) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/ad1s1f on /usr/ (ufs, local, soft-updates) Try the "-u" (update) option. _______________________________________________ [2]freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list [3]http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [4]"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" References 1. mailto:scphantm@yahoo.com 2. mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 3. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions 4. mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org