Re: i just fucked up my system big time
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:12:04AM +0800, brandon wrote:
> Being the total noob i am, i changed
> /dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro
> in my fstab, to
> /dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults,utf8,errors=remount-ro
>
> and now whenever i boot up i get / mounted as readonly, rendering me
> unable to change it back. is the any way i could find a way to edit the
> file?
If you still can boot fine, just remount / as read-write:
mount -o remount,rw /dev/hdb5 /
See if that works. You should then be able to edit
/etc/fstab just fine.
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