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Re: EMERGENCY 'umount /'



On Mon, 24 May 1999, per_adua32 wrote:

> After booting with linux-init=/bin/sh I was dropped
> into bash. I then tried to unmount the root filesystem
> so that I could mount it again as read/write. However,
> when I entered the command
> 
> umount /
> 
> I got some message like can't open mtab: file doesn't 
> exist or something like this.
> 
> Can someone please. I would to solve this without having
> to re-install the whole system.


try:

mount / -o remount,rw



George Bonser

Welcome to Wit's End


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