Dear Klar Brian
I'm sorry for write this email later, because I have read that you
installed all again.
Otherwise, I don't know if it could be helpful to you.
Sometime ago, I had a problem with the mtab file. I edited it. You
didn't realize that have make a great error, but, the machine will
I did something stupid to both fstab and mtab files.
I rebooted and now my / partition (/dev/hdc8 won't
mount, due to fstab says it is ext2, when it is actually
reiserfs. The partition is mounted as read-only when I
do a linux single boot from floppy.
I know this is a dumb question for this
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:54:54AM -0400, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote:
I did something stupid to both fstab and mtab files.
I rebooted and now my / partition (/dev/hdc8 won't
mount, due to fstab says it is ext2, when it is actually
reiserfs. The partition is mounted as read-only when I
Oops! I still have painful memories of when my silly tinkering achieved a
similar effect. :-)
You could use a rescue floppy disk to use as a root filesystem until you can
mount the offending partition and edit /etc/fstab. Maybe the rescue image in
the images directory on the Mandrake cdrom may
You could probably manually unmount and then remount as read-write by
doing something like:
umount /dev/hdc8
mount -t vfstype -o rw /dev/hdc8 /mnt
I don't know offhand how ReiserFS is designated in the -t parameter -
you'll have to make the appropriate substitution for
