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Re: Most directories locked read-only: how to unlock them?



On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 04:36:37PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote:

> I allowed my box to get into a situation where the root directory (/),
> and all the subdirectories on it -- except /boot, /home, /tmp, /usr,
> /var, /media and swap -- are locked read-only.  Since I cannot write to
> the root directory -- or to /bin, /dev, /etc, /initrd, /lib, /opt, /sbin
> and /srv -- I have very effectively rendered the box unuseable.

  It might not work, but maybe this will help:

    mount -n -o remount,rw /

Steve
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