From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 30 15:03:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05308 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:03:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05287 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:03:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA11871; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:03:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:03:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Greg Haa cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting out of Read Only In-Reply-To: <35BFB78E.CF3B653C@z-axis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message