Hi Dene,
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Dene Stringfellow wrote:
> Can anyone please help? A user has just inadvertently deleted a folder
> of work from an SMB share stored on an ext3 partition on a YDL 3.0
> system running on an Apple G3 B&W tower. I have just unmounted the
> partition with a view to remounting the partition as readonly in an
> effort to try to recover the data, as I found the overnight backup
> failed last night!
>
> However when I try any of the following mount commands:
>
> mount -o ro,remount /home/Lnx_CAD2
>
> mount -o remount,ro /home/Lnx_CAD2
>
> mount -t ext3 -o remount,ro /dev/sdb5 /home/Lnx_CAD2
>
> mount -o remount,ro /dev/sdb5
>
> mount -o remount,ro -t ext3 /dev/sdb5 /home/Lnx_CAD2
>
> I get the following error:
>
> mount: /home/Lnx_CAD2 not mounted already, or bad option
>
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
If you already umounted it, then you just want to mount it read-only,
not remount it, i.e.
mount -o ro /home/Lnx_CAD2
The remount option is for if the file system is already mounted,
and you want to change its usage, typically from ro to rw, which
I've used from a single user boot.
-Hope this helps
-Bill
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