Repairing a mount configuration problem

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 21:25 +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote:
> Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> > I recently made some changes with the partitions on my system and neglected to update fstab. As the system booted, a message appeared, stating I could:
> >
> > 1. type Ctrl-D to continue (I tried that, and it caused the computer to reboot and stop anew at the same problem - not very useful); or
> >
> > 2. type the root password to fix the problem.
> >
> > Upon trying the second method, the system logged me in, but I was unable to fix anything because the partitions were mounted read only. This is also not useful.
> >
> > How am I supposed to fix the problem (I knew exactly what it was) when I am barred from changing anything?
> >
> >   
> mount -rw (man mount is even better ;)

mount -o remount,rw ...

is probably better if the fs is already mounted.

poc