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Date:      Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:03:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Greg Haa <greg@z-axis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Getting out of Read Only
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807301503180.17630-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35BFB78E.CF3B653C@z-axis.com>

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On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, 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.

Yucky.

> 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.

>From single-user mode:

mount -u /

will open root read/write.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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