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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE>
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Subject: Re: fstab!
In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.878386460.lars.falch@germs_client> from "lf@get2net.dk" at "Nov 1, 97 01:08:50 pm"
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Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 16:09:36 +0100 (MET)
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> Hi there,
> 
> I am having a bit of a problem - I have (by mistake) renamed my 
> fstab file, so that when I boot the system stops and lets me 
> into to a read-only prompt - where I can't rename it back, due 
> to the r/o filesystem.

Enter
	mount -rw -u /
to change / from read only to read/write.

Wolfgang