Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:29:37 -0400 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Cc: FreeBSD current mailing list <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mount -uw / does not work in boot -s Message-ID: <20070912112937.GA88680@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <20070911212720.K58095@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <20070911212720.K58095@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
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Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote on Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:31:49PM +0000: > 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/... / I had the same problem recently. For me, just mount -u / worked, and even if the fstab entry was having the wrong device. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/
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