What if you go into single user and remount rw? Does that work? Does it then still come back ro on the next usual boot level? Doug Lawlor writes: > Hello all, after a long laps in time I am rebuilding my linux box and am > having a problem with my root file system being mounted read only instead of > being mounted read/write. I have been doing some looking and e2fsck -p tells > me the file system is clean when I scan it using the system rescue cd from > www.sysresccd.org. I have been noticing that devpts is being mounted > although it is disabled in the kernel which by the way is 2.6.11. I am truly > at a loss here on what to do about this. I have ran into a similar problem > in the past and am not sure how I fixed it. The distribution is gentoo and > is set up to use udev. > The file system is ext3 and is on partition /dev/hda3. I am using lvm for > /usr, /var, /home, /tmp and /opt. > I know this is all kind of sketchy at 4:30 in the morning so any help would > be well appreciated. > Glad to be back on the list again. > > Doug > > Doug Lawlor, > Email: dlawlor at warp.nfld.net > Skype: dlawlor1971 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org
