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Title: a little mistake in fstab - boot failure
Post by: Gwenael on December 04, 2001, 11:45:20 AM

I wanted to use quota on my esmith. After the modification of the fstab, the root partition become in read-only mode. (a wrong character after LABEL=/p ) --> with putty and mc

How can i solve this problem, please don't say: fresh install & restore backup!  ;-)

It's just a poor "p" ....  

I can boot on single user mode but the partition is already mounted. How can i umount it and remont it in RW mode?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Regards,

Gwenaël

Title: Re: a little mistake in fstab - boot failure
Post by: Tim Haynes on December 04, 2001, 03:58:56 PM

You could download a floppy boot disk image from http://www.toms.net/rb/.  Boot from this and you should be able to mount the file system and make any changes necessary.

Title: Re: a little mistake in fstab - boot failure
Post by: Chris O'Donovan on December 05, 2001, 05:55:56 AM

Try

   mount -o rw -o remount /

Chris