On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, David B. wrote:
> Hi, hate to bother. I'm working in 3.8 and I've run across something new
> and can't figure out. For some reason, on this box a drive isn't
> mounting, and the boot blows and asks for shell. so, I go to shell and
> I've tried to edit the fstab file to remark out the mountpoint that's
> gone bad. First off, VI isn't there, so I've tried ,s/old/new/g using
> ed, but then it says that it's a read only file, and when I try to
> whoami, or to su, it doesn't see the programs. So, all I need to do is to
> be able to edit fstab and remark out the bad mount point and I can take
> it from there. thanks
> Its free.
Remount / with write access. I believe that would be:
# mount -u -w /
No need for "su", you're already root.
Dave
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