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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!think.com!barmar
  2. From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
  4. Subject: Re: File System mounts read only, only
  5. Date: 21 Aug 1992 03:42:59 GMT
  6. Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
  7. Lines: 14
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  9. Message-ID: <171oo3INNer1@early-bird.think.com>
  10. References: <1992Aug20.190831.14867@tc.cornell.edu>
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com
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  13. In article <1992Aug20.190831.14867@tc.cornell.edu> hurf@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Hurf Sheldon) writes:
  14. >We have a weird problem - /etc/fstab got zeroed out by a
  15. >little helper so now the IPC comes up with the disk mounted
  16. >read only so I can't fix the file... Rebooting single user
  17. >"reboot -- -s" doesn't help the mount problem.
  18.  
  19. Boot it single user, and then manually mount the root partition read-write:
  20.  
  21. $ mount -o rw,remount /dev/whatever /
  22. -- 
  23. Barry Margolin
  24. System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
  25.  
  26. barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
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