From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 29 21:53:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA28943 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 21:53:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA28907 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 21:53:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA01478; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 22:17:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199807300217.WAA01478@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: Getting out of Read Only In-Reply-To: <35BFB78E.CF3B653C@z-axis.com> from Greg Haa at "Jul 29, 98 05:00:15 pm" To: greg@z-axis.com (Greg Haa) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 22:17:37 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Haa wrote: > I am using FreeBSD 2.2.2 with adaptec 2940UW and Intel 200mhz. > The scsi card went bad over last night and corrupted some of my disks. > I fixed most of them with the SCSI verify utility except one disk. > So the system will not boot properly. I have been trying to edit the > entry out > of the fstab file but every time I try, the system is in read-only > mode. How can I get into write mode to change this file and fix > my server. Thanks in advance. for example for the root partition: mount -u -w / DV -- Sancho Panza: `Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available.' Don Quixote: `You are mistaken, Sancho.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message