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From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Subject: Re: mount root fs r/w in single user mode?
Organization: private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands
Message-ID: <EBF6FE.117@yedi.iaf.nl>
References: <3398C512.417E@engin.umich.edu>
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 19:06:50 GMT
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Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42622
Cheng Jin <chengjin@engin.umich.edu> writes:
>Hello, all.
>Is it possible to mount the root file system read and write in the
>single user mode. It ought to be a reasonably feature, but I can't
>get it working (when the root fs is clean).
It is: mount -u /
Below is taken from 'man mount'
-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 or vice versa. An attempt to
change
from read-write to read-only will fail if any files on the
filesystem are currently open for writing unless the -f flag is
also specified. The set of options is determined by first ex-
tracting the options for the file system from the fstab table,
then applying any options specified by the -o argument, and fi-
nally applying the -r or -w option.
--
Wilko
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