Hi, On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:17:22PM -0400, Guray Gursoy wrote: > While I was experimenting with the quotas I changed the following line in the /etc/fstab : > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 (BEFORE) > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults,userquotas 1 1 (AFTER) > > Now, I cannot write anything to the /, nor I cannot change any of the files including /etc/fstab "mount" is probably getting terminally confused by the illegal options you added into fstab. "userquotas" is not a valid filesystem option. "quota" or "usrquota" would be OK. You can use "mount -n -o remount,rw /dev/root /" to remount the root filesystem read-write, allowing you to fix fstab. This is standard mount behaviour: if you don't specify both the /dev/root *and* the "/" mount point in the mount command, then mount needs to consult /etc/fstab to find the missing argument, and it will pick up the bad option from fstab when it does so. You need to specify both the device and the mount point if you want to override the /etc/fstab entries completely. Cheers, Stephen
