with swap enable, editing fstab yield nothing again. editing and trying to save the file, i get "fstab" E212: Can't open file for writing.
still unable to remount it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bret Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:27 PM Subject: Re: fstab On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 23:25, Daniel Tan wrote: > i'm at (repair filesystem) # prompt..after entering root password > / is mounted but i can't umount it at all... > > running mount -n / -o remount,rw > came out mount: / not mounted already , or bad option > > 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. This would be easier for someone else to follow if you would not top post. Well since there is no swap enabled lets enable some. I have never done this without an fstab but the manpage for swapon seems to indicate that swapon /dev/whatever should work. so assumming that your swap partition is the same as root, try fdisk -l /dev/sda and see which partition is swap and use that in the above swapon command. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Email Virus Scanner, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Email Virus Scanner, and is believed to be clean. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list