Hello Thibaut, > > > > > I trust we didn't spoke about same context: > > we did. > > > if the pb that James encounter is well related to the kernel bug I > spoke > > about, you didn't miss to read: > > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239735> > > I did read it. > > > and specialy this: > > "[...] > > > > # mount -n -o remount,rw /dev/sda1 / > > mount: you must specify the filesystem type > > # mount -n -o remount,rw none / > > mount: you must specify the filesystem type > > # mount -n -o remount,rw / > > # > > [...] > > " > > which I hope will convince you that I was not alone. > > Of course you were not alone. That's a known bug, and amusingly > enough, the tip I gave James to get his file system properly remounted > DOES work, as the quote you pasted shows: > mount -o remount,rw / > does not yell any error. > yes sorry :(
> Summarizing (and hopefully ending) this discussion: > Agree. The confusion came certainly from a bad formulation. > - I gave a tip that was working. > > - You asserted it *wouldn't* work, without checking first. > Trust me at this time (in March), I did try something like this which failled for me. But, I assume I missed something and that too far now to find back what I did wrong :( > - I didn't like that, since it was not true, and could lead readers to > think that something else would be needed to remount their filesystem > read/write. > > - I told you to be more careful when *asserting* things on a m-l. > > - Eventually you proved by yourself that in fact it does work. > Sure, I need more simple solution then what I did: I still have two 'testing' debian with old kernels (a 2.6.3-rc3-pa0 and a 2.4.20-pa26) recently updated but not rebooted for a long time (uptime 108 days :) ) > I shall thank you for that :P > Thanks to you to guide me on right way (sincerely) Joel --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tiscali ADSL LIGHT, 19,95 EUR/mois pendant 6 mois, c'est le moment de faire le pas! http://reg.tiscali.be/default.asp?lg=fr
