Re: (newbee alert) cant save changes to edited scripts.

["Greg Teigue" <greg@phlo.net>]

nothing apparently.
# mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount -ro)

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Collins" <bcollins@debian.org>
To: "Greg Teigue" <greg@phlo.net>
Cc: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: (newbee alert) cant save changes to edited scripts.


> On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:57:54PM -0400, Greg Teigue wrote:
> > reinstalled using *normal* partitioning, ignoring the sparc way.  still
has
> > the same result, system will boot and run, just mounts root as -ro.  we
are
> > not amused.  dmesg sez nothing at all about mounting -ro, or i would
have
> > caught it sooner ( at least i tell myself that).  kern.log reveals that
root
> > is mounted -ro but does not state a reason or even mention errors.  this
> > makes absolutely no sense.  the /var partition is now @ sda3 and it
> > mounts -rw.  why does it insist on / being -ro?
>
> Initially / is mounted read-only on boot, and the init script remount it
> read-write after an fsck (if needed).
>
> What happens when you do "mount -o remount,rw /" ?
>
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