On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:35:58PM +0100, Andy Green wrote:
If that is actually the correct filesystem being mounted read-only,
you
can re-mount it rw in place, like this for example
mount /dev/sda2 / -oremount,rw
It was the right and sane filesystem, and I knew mount could probably
do this, but my mind had gone blank. I went for Mark's rescue CD
suggestion instead.
Jonathan