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

["Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>]

In article <[🔎] 43CD6A21.8020007@heard.name>,
Ken Heard  <ken@heard.name> wrote:
>Daniel B. wrote:
>
>> That looks like you mistyped "defaults" as "drfaults" in your
>> /etc/fstab file.
>
>	I was well aware that I mistyped "defaults" as my original post 
>indicated.  I was also aware that this error caused the root directory 
>to be mounted read-only.  Also as my original post indicated, my first 
>query was how to change the mount to read-write without having to 
>reinstall the whole operating system.

Simply specify both the directory _and_ the device on the command
line, in that case mount doesn't read fstab.

Eg something like:

	mount -n -o remount,rw /dev/sda1 /

Mike.
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