While I step into the middle of the conversation. Have you tried a mount
-a this should attempt to mount all of the entries in the fstab.
See what happens then ... Its a suggestion I don't know if this is the
best solution but it should be a direction.
Also try mounting /dev/sda6 somewhere else. Like try this if it is at
all possible:
mount /dev/sda6 /home/mnt or
mount /dev/sda6 /var/mnt
See if you can do any writing there ? HTH.
Cheers,
Aly.
> running mount came out /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> see there is rw in there but am not able to write anything on /, editing a
> file prompts swap not enabled but i can edit but not save the file.
>
> arghh...going bonkers over this..
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bret Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 11:59 AM
> Subject: Re: fstab
>
>
> On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 21:41, Daniel Tan wrote:
> > tried your command but it did not work...was asked to specify file system.
> > where do i specify the filesystem? i tried placing -t ext3 after mount and
> > it says mount point rw does not exist
> > i actually don't have a backup of fstab in another place but i can edit
> the
> > fstab file as i can roughly remember devices name
> >
>
> Sorry the syntax is wrong
>
> try
>
> mount -n / -o remount,rw
>
> if still no worky
>
> It may be that it is not mounted at all I guess. Since I have never been
> where you are I don't know for sure. How did you get to a command
> prompt? What messages are there?
>
> I am assuming that the / filesystem is mounted since you could at least
> get to a single user command prompt. I believe the kernel gets the root
> file system information from the boot loader so it should be mounted
> even without an fstab but the mount command wants to look in fstab to
> translate the mountpoints (/) to a device (/dev/hda2)
>
> what does
>
> mount
>
> return?
>
>
> Bret
>
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