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From: Joseph Stein <joes@seaport.net>
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Subject: Re: fstab!
In-Reply-To: <199711011509.QAA02010@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> from Wolfgang Helbig at "Nov 1, 97 04:09:36 pm"
To: helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE (Wolfgang Helbig)
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> Enter
> 	mount -rw -u /
> to change / from read only to read/write.

Except that he has no /etc/fstab, and that command will let him know it.

Better to do this:

	mount -rw /dev/[ws]d0a /

joe