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Date:      Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:31:49 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
To:        FreeBSD current mailing list <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   mount -uw / does not work in boot -s
Message-ID:  <20070911212720.K58095@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>

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Hi,

if you boot -s on a HEAD and try to mount -uw / it will fail to update
the mount if you do not have a /etc/fstab. The fstab part is the key
to this. With an /etc/fstab everything seems to work just smoothly but
how to touch the fstab if you cannot mount the fs rw?

Neither
 	mount -uw /
 	mount -u -o rw /
 	mount -uw /dev/... /
 	mount -u -o rw /dev/... /

work. The versions with the /dev/... / do not seem to give an error
message but a mount afterwards shows that / is still read-only.

The filesystem was clean upon boot and no fsck was run (I know there
is another problem after fsck I think).

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb                                 bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
Software is harder than hardware  so better get it right the first time.


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