Okay, I thought I would update this with everything I've tried. Not sure if this will help anyone, but what didn't work for me may work for them.
If the filesystem mounts as -ro then I can usually get it to mount rw using: > sudo mount -o remount,rw / And if that works then I can edit the /etc/fstab file successfully, though sometimes I get the message that it isn't mounted, and trying to mount it without the "remount" option gives the message that it is already mounted. Last time that happened I had to boot from the live cd and change the fstab file from there. I'd recently tried to add my Windows 7 partition to the fstab file so I commented that out, but it didn't help. I used: > sudo blkid To check the uuid's in the fstab file were correct and they were so that didn't work. > fsck.ext4 /dev/sda5 (change "ext4" depending on file system type and "/sda5" depending on partition number) This came up clean too. > fsck -fy /dev/sda5 Was clean > fsck -c /dev/sda5 Always reports making a change and asking for a reboot, but the filesystem still doesn't mount. I don't think my fstab entry is wrong, but I'm not certain so if someone could post a good fstab line for the root filesystem I'd be grateful. I'll write down what it currently is next time I need to post. Does anyone know if there's a way to repair ubuntu without completely re-installing? I have some data on there and I'm not sure I have enough room to back it up to, which means I'm reluctant to wipe the partition. -Scut -- Mount of root filesystem failed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/468450 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
