From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 9:13:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts17-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts17.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA71337B41D for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 09:13:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from scaryg.shacknet.nu ([64.231.142.160]) by tomts17-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20020330171242.KEFA28229.tomts17-srv.bellnexxia.net@scaryg.shacknet.nu>; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 12:12:42 -0500 Received: from freymann (helo=localhost) by scaryg.shacknet.nu with local-esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16rMRU-0007c2-00; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 12:15:04 -0500 Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 12:15:03 -0500 (EST) From: "Gerald T. Freymann" To: Walter Hop Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help needed. how to re-mount / in rw mode. In-Reply-To: <200203301536.40831@silver.dt1.binity.net> Message-ID: <20020330121307.N28647-100000@scaryg.shacknet.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Walter Hop wrote: > [in reply to Noel Balansag, Saturday 30 March 2002 15:23] > > > i experimented on editing /etc/fstab and mounted / in ro mode, and now, > > i cannot edit anything even as root. short of re-installing fbsd, is > > there any other way to re-mount / in rw mode? > > Try: > > mount -o rw / Walter: What about this goof up... Restored / from a dump. It overwrote /etc/fstab... on reboot FreeBSD sees the device name of a different hd controller.. I can boot -s I can see the list of files But it won't let me touch them... I can't "more filename" or edit anything. I need to fix /etc/fstab.... how does one get rw back? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message