----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Howarth" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 12:51 PM Subject: Re: How to mount a partition as root and make it world read-write? > VJ wrote: > > Yes I am 100% sure that it is ext2 (i re-created it just now after reading > > your mail). The / is reiserfs. > > The root filesystem type shouldn't matter. > > Try this: > > mount /dev/hdh3 /t > chown root:root /t > chmod 1777 /t > > Now, what's the output from the following commands: > > mount > ls -l / /t > touch /t/jim > su rpm -c "touch /t/fred" > ls -l /t > > Paul. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Hi Paul, The method you suggest was known to me, but the thing is i do not want to execute anything apart from using fstab file. If everything else fails, I will use this method as the last resort. Thanks and regards from VJ
