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Jamie <jamie@gnulife.org> writes:

> On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Sunil Sunder Raj wrote:
> 

[snip]

> > [Mount  the filesystems]
> >
> > At the command prompt. issue the mount command. This command will mount
> > all the filesystems listed in your /etc/fstab file.
> >
> > # mount -t ufs -a
> >
> >

[snip]

>    Hmmm...maybe I am wrong but I thought you had to remount the '/'
> partition in rw mode also:
> 
> mount -urw /

'mount -t ufs -a' will take care of that.

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Best regards
    Christian Laursen