Thanks everybody for your help with mount r/o in rescue, reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on / fixed it. :-).
Cheers Trevor C Falconer wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 15:38, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > > > ``mount /mount-point -o remount,rw'' > > > > > > This will certainly fail on a rescue system as it requires a > > > corresponding entry in /etc/fstab which won't exist. Always specify > > > both filesystem device and mountpoint. > > > Sorry, yes it will work if the filesystem is already mounted, but in a > > rescue situation (which the question was about) it won't be because the > > rootfs of the rescue system is on CD or ramdisk. > > Dwoops! My fault! I must have been thinking about when a file system > problem, or booting in single user mode dumps you into into single user > mode, with a r-o / partition. > > Whats the lists feelings about having a backup root partition? a small > 100 Mb partition with minimal etc and bin and so on... ? I though it was a good idea if it is on another drive.
