On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 09:12 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote, On 04/21/2008 11:35 PM: > > On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 20:32 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote: > >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >>> My fstab contains the line: > >>> > >>> LABEL=/xtra /xtra ext3 defaults 1 2 > >>> > >>> which worked fine on F8. Now with F9-Preview the boot process halts with > >>> the following error (I'm working form memory here): > >>> > >>> Fsck: cannot resolve "LABEL=/xtra" > >>> > >>> and drops me to a Shell to fix the problem. Two things: > >>> > >>> 1) From the Shell I can happily "mount /xtra" with no problems, so what > >>> gives? > >>> > >>> 2) I can't edit /etc/fstab from this Shell. "mount" claims that the > >>> system disk is mounted rw. but when I try to edit fstab "vi" tells me > >>> it's read-only, and in fact "> foo" from the Shell gives the same error. > >>> So I feel I have to ask why is the emergency Shell set up to not let me > >>> edit anything? > >> Did you try editing then using w! to save it? That may have worked. > > > > Of course. It didn't. w! is fine if it's just a write-protected file. > > This was a read-only filesystem. > > > > poc > > > > when in faulted file system mode, trust /proc/mounts instead of /etc/mtab > (which is what mount returns data from). > > a trick for when you need to write to these file systems: > mount -oremount,rw /mountpoint > i.e., for the root file system > mount-oremount,rw / Thanks. I knew that was possible, I just couldn't remember the incantation and when I checked the man page I didn't see it. poc -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
