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On Wed, 21 May 2008 20:01:37 +0100 Simon Waters wrote: > Jason Witcher wrote: > > > > Well, things *have* gone very wrong - on boot up it says it cannot > > mount the partition because it is busy (even after I've > > disconnected the drive...), then it drops to 'maintenance mode'. > > However, even though I am logged in as root, the file system is > > mounted read-only and I cannot edit the fstab (this is in > > 'maintenance mode' - how on earth are you supposed to maintain a > > read only system?). > > 'Read only' is a property of the file system - being root doesn't > alter that, but root can fix it! > > There is a "remount" try a "mount -o remount,rw" on the read only file > system. > > I think most distros mount the root or boot file systems as read only, > and only switch to read write when things start to look promising. One > day that feature will save your data, and you'll probably never even > notice it has happened! A lot of them also have a tendency to remount a filesystem as RO when it's been having problems with it. Saves the potential for corruption by continuing to write to a filesystem that it knows is flaky. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html