Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:05:14 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Steel City Phantom <scphantm@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remounting a drive Message-ID: <44hcp1xblh.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <467ACC6F.8010907@yahoo.com> (Steel City Phantom's message of "Thu\, 21 Jun 2007 15\:07\:27 -0400") References: <467ACC6F.8010907@yahoo.com>
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Steel City Phantom <scphantm@yahoo.com> writes: > ok, i had a working bsd system. > > i shut it down, and removed a drive from it to use in another computer > > i turn it on and i get mounting errors, nothing unsual, can't find drives > > from the manualroot prompt i put in the path to the root partition to > the drive that is still in the machine > > i boot to single user mode > > im now trying to edit my fstab so i can boot normally (the drive > numbers moved from ad1 to ad0 because i removed a hardrive) > > i can see all the files, i mounted my /usr partition, but for some > reason i can't remount the / parition to edit the fstab. when i enter > the command mount -o rw / i get operation not permitted. i tried > mount -o rw /dev/ad1s1 / and mount -o rw /dev/ad0s1 /and got the same > thing. ive used this in the past and it works, i don't know why its > not working now. any ideas? > > bsd 6.2 if it matters > > when i do mount > /dev/ad1s1 on / (ufs, local, read-only) > devfs on /dev (devfs, local) > /dev/ad1s1f on /usr/ (ufs, local, soft-updates) Try the "-u" (update) option.
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