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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>,
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Subject: Re: Install issues
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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 11:41:29 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20151005173644.d3b9c5ce.freebsd@edvax.de> (Polytropon's message
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Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> writes:

> On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 10:18:49 -0453.75, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

>> Is there a way to force the 
>> booted root drive to be mounted 'rw' ?
>
> Probably you can do this with a custom entry in /etc/rc.local (if
> the boot image processes /etc/rc).

Plus which, anybody who's read the FAQ knows about the "mount -a" approach.