On Mon, 24 May 1999, per_adua32 wrote:
[snip]
> 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.
In /etc/init.d, I find the lines:
# Ensure that root is quiescent and read-only before fsck'ing.
#
mount -n -o remount,ro /
This command should remount an rw root file system read only.
--David
David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
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