On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:42:38PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > Thanks to Stural Holm Hansen and Steve Kemp for answering my post. > Unfortunately I my problem is still not solved. > > I first tried Steve Kemp's suggestion, because it was the simpler, > as it did not require use of a live CDROM. He warned me that the > command > "mount -n -o remount,rw /" might not work. It didn't. It returned > > EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option "drfaults" or missing value > mount: / not mounted already, or bad option > > I then ran "mount -n -o remount,defaults,rw /" and "mount -n -o > defaults,rw /". The first command returned the same result as above. > The second returned: > > mount: /dev/mapper/SOL-root is already mounted or / busy > mount: according to mtab, /dev/mapper/SOL-root is already > mounted on /
If all else fails, you could try the following approach: Copy /etc/fstab to /tmp/fstab and fix your "drfaults" typo in there. Then patch a temporary copy of /bin/mount and libc.so to use /tmp/fstab instead of /etc/fstab. To do so, create this little script, make it executable, and run it as root: #!/bin/sh FSTAB=/tmp/fstab LIBC=/lib/libc.so.6 perl -pe "s|/etc/fstab|$FSTAB|g" $LIBC >/tmp/libc.so.6 perl -pe "s|/etc/fstab|$FSTAB|g" /bin/mount >/tmp/mount chmod +x /tmp/mount export LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/libc.so.6 /tmp/mount -n -o remount,rw / (I'm assuming you can still write in /tmp -- if not, you could of course also use some other writable location, but make sure the length of the string you then use in place of "/tmp/fstab" always is exactly 10 characters long.) Use at your own risk! Almut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
