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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk!lessen From: lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: / read only when in single user Date: 14 May 1993 08:01:18 GMT Organization: BT Laboratories Lines: 14 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1svjke$l5f@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> References: <1771@lucifer.UUCP> NNTP-Posting-Host: jammy.axion.bt.co.uk In article <1771@lucifer.UUCP>, rst@liciren.li.co.uk (Richard Thombs) writes: |> On NetBSD, when I boot into single user mode, the root filesystem is |> mounted as read-only. How can I make this a writable filesystem? There |> surely must be a way - how else can you change forgotten root passwords |> for example? |> Richard, Try 'mount -u /', this says 'update the filesystem mounted on /', this will change from read only to read-write. Lee.