On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 12:18 PM, LoneStar wrote:


Braden wrote:


Actually, you can remount partitions without rebooting to change the read only status to read-write. e.g.


mount -o remount,rw /usr

...or whatever mount you want to change. You can change it back with

mount -o remount,ro /usr

This is what I do when I want to upgrade, as my fstab declares /usr as read-only.

- Braden

 Besides, what difference would this be from using a Win box?
If you change the DNS entries in a 95/98/2k/ME box you have to reboot.
XP ain't quite as bad, but not far from it.

Johnny


Sorry... I don't quite understand... I was saying that you do *not* need to reboot in order to edit files under a partition mounted read-only, because you can remount a partition with different settings (e.g. read-write) *without* rebooting....


Sorry if I was being unclear...

- Braden


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