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

[Ken Heard <ken@heard.name>]

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> 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 /

	Yes, but mount reads mtab.  Mtab showed / as already mounted; 
consequently  the mount command failed.  I had to use the script file 
furnished by Almut Behrens in his post to the list of 2006-01-17 05:41 UTC
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				Ken Heard
				Research Associate
				Museum Studies Program
				University of Toronto, Canada