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From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Help!! SOS! I can't login to my FreeBSD System!!
Date: 07 May 1994 00:01:28 GMT
Organization: Jordan Hubbard
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In-reply-to: hickman@ttisys.tamu.edu's message of 6 May 1994 19:20:14 GMT
In article <2qe59e$csv@news.tamu.edu> hickman@ttisys.tamu.edu (Dan R. Hickman) writes:
THis is Dan again. I figured out how to boot in single user mode,
but it mounts the root file system as 'read-only'. How can I
get it to mount as 'read-write'? I see in the init man page
that there are different levels of access. It seems I need to
be at level one but I don't know how to do that? Any help?
Hmmmm. This is a FAQ. Congradulations - you're going to be the
motivation for another FAQ entry! :-)
To re-mount root with r/w access, try:
mount -u /dev/sd0a /
(or wd0a if you're IDE). From the man page:
-u The -u flag indicates that the status of an already mounted file
system should be changed. Any of the options discussed above
(the -o option) may be changed; also a file system can be changed
from read-only to read-write. The set of options is determined
by first extracting the options for the file system from the
fstab table, then applying any options specified by the -o argu-
ment, and finally applying the -r or -w option.
Jordan
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Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Friend to mollusks