Re: [gentoo-user] root (/) read-only?

[Jason Stubbs]

On Tuesday 27 September 2005 21:24, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> On 27 September 2005 14:00, James Hiscock wrote:
> > On 9/27/05, glumtail <glumtail@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > This happens offen in my system.
> > >
> > > My root filesystem is reiserfs and /home is ext3, when i extract tar
> > > packages it says it is a readonly filesystem.
> >
> > Fix your /etc/fstab - it thinks your root partition is xfs, when it
> > isn't. You either: a) didn't change it during installation; or b)
> > overwrote it in a recent update.
>
> Since his root filesystem is read-only, he needs a bit more help I guess
> because he can't simply use his favourite editor to edit fstab. Well, he
> can but he can't write the changes to his harddisk. ;-)
>
> You boot from a live cd (any actually). If it is a gentoo live cd you mount
> your root partition under /mnt/gentoo. If it is some other cd you have to
> find out where to mount. Now you cd to /mnt/gentoo/etc and edit fstab.
> Write it back and reboot the box without cd.

Or from the running read-only system:

# mount -t reiserfs -o remount,rw /dev/xdx# /

The type and/or block device may not even be necessary.

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