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From: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu>
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To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>,
	Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1011423273.2bdf31@mired.org>
Subject: Re: can't mount / properly, fstab woes
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 16:03:02 -0600
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On Monday 14 January 2002 04:59 am, Jan Grant wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> types:
> > > On Saturday 12 January 2002 07:40 pm, Chris Fedde wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 19:00:02 -0600  David Syphers wrote:
> > >
> > > I can't.  That's what I meant when I said that "it won't let me mount /
> > > read-write."  I tried
> > >
> > > # mount -u -w /
> > > # mount -u -w /dev/ad0s1a
> > > # mount -u -w -f /dev/ad0s1a
> > >
> > > and none of them work.  They all give the error "fstab /etc/fstab :3:
> > > inappropriate file type or format".  Why is it looking at fstab anyway,
> > > if I've specified the device name?
> >
> > Because you didn't specify the mount point? I'm not able to test this,
> > but I'd suggest:
> >
> > 1) shutdown -r
> > 2) reboot to single user mode
> > 3) mount -u -o ro / /dev/ad0s1a
>
> Switch the last two parameters around.

I assume what I really want is 'mount -u -o rw /dev/ad0s1a /', correct?  The 
option 'ro' isn't documented in the FreeBSD manpage, but is in the RedHat 
manpage  :)

-David

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