He will not need to remount /home, but remount /. He is in the
single-user maintenance mode.
/etc/fstab is the file he cannot edit.
- Mike
Dean S. Messing wrote:
: Bonjour,
:
: As I run short of place on my /home partition, I decided to format a new
: partition on my HD (some place were left) and call it home2 after
: creating it with fdisk. I run
:
: mke2fs -j -L home2 /dev/hdax
:
: then added this line in fstab:
:
: LABEL=/home2 /home2 ext3 defaults 1 2
:
: Then I rebooted the machine.... and, as there was a mistake in the
: fstab, I was dropped to a repair-partition prompt because fsck.ext3
: didn't know what to do with LABEL "/home2"....
:
: I thought that there were no problem: I just type the root password and
: tried to comment the bad line in the fstab... Impossible: "the file is
: write protected" was the only answer I got from vi...
:
: I was root, the fstab file has write permission for root, but it was
: impossible to modify this file....
:
: WHY?
:
: Thank you.
:
: PS. I recovered with reformating the partition with the right syntax.
The behaviour is probably due to the parition being mounted "read-only".
>From the commandline, issue `mount' and look at the last item on the
line. I'm guessing it says "(ro)". You can change the write mode of
the partition by issuing
mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda5
assuming /home is on hda5.
Now issue `mount' again and you will see that "(ro)"
has changed to "(rw)".
Dean
