Difference between revisions of "Remount root partition"
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| − | Sometimes, due to hubris or stupidity, you end up with bad fstab | + | Sometimes, due to hubris or stupidity, you end up with a bad fstab entry for your root or /etc partition. |
Linux will detect errors and conveniently mount it as read-only, but now you can't edit /etc/fstab to fix the problem. Just remount it, but don't forget the -n option. | Linux will detect errors and conveniently mount it as read-only, but now you can't edit /etc/fstab to fix the problem. Just remount it, but don't forget the -n option. | ||
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Revision as of 13:20, 12 April 2007
Sometimes, due to hubris or stupidity, you end up with a bad fstab entry for your root or /etc partition.
Linux will detect errors and conveniently mount it as read-only, but now you can't edit /etc/fstab to fix the problem. Just remount it, but don't forget the -n option.
-n Mount without writing in /etc/mtab.
This is necessary for example when /etc is on a read-only file system.
For example, this will remount / with defaults (defaults contains rw):
mount -n -o remount,defaults /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /
